Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 SoCs by Apple and Qualcomm respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 6-core and 8-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.

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Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
A15 Bionic Chip 55
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 34
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 56
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 30
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 50
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Snapdragon 7s Gen 2
CPU 209204 149371
GPU 351594 232144
Memory 118044 105312
UX 130276 114446
Total score 809118 601273
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A15 Bionic Chip

  • A15 Bionic Chip has 34.58% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 (3230 vs 2400 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 27.66% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 (1200 vs 940 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 33.31% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 (4266 vs 3200 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 34.57% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 (809 K vs 601 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 7s Gen 2.
  • A15 Bionic Chip Support 33.20% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 (34.1 vs 25.6 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

  • Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 has 20% smaller sized transistor than A15 Bionic Chip (4 vs 5 nm).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 1001

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 2913

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 18 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @ 144 Hz, FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

89%
Base Frequency

1950 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
    4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 32 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 5 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Adreno 710
  • Architecture - Adreno 700
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 940 MHz
  • Execution units 5 -
  • Shading units 640 -
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version - -
  • OpenCL version - -
  • DirectX version - -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 25.6 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 6 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Yes
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - Snapdragon X62
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Apple A15 Bionic Chip

CPU
55%
GPU
56%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

CPU
34%
GPU
30%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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