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58

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Apple A15 Bionic Chip

A15 Bionic Chip

95

Points
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)
Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 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 46
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 98
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 47
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 99
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 58
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 95
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)
CPU 209204 635739
GPU 351594 1237734
Memory 118044 460296
UX 130276 457187
Total score 809118 2790956
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 9.09% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) (1200 vs 1100 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

  • Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) has 25.01% higher memory frequency than A15 Bionic Chip (5333 vs 4266 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) has 40% smaller sized transistor than A15 Bionic Chip (3 vs 5 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) has 244.94% better AnTuTu 9 score than A15 Bionic Chip (2,791 K vs 809 K ).
  • Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) has latest instruction set, hence better than A15 Bionic Chip.
  • Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) Support 150.44% higher memory bandwidth than A15 Bionic Chip (85.4 vs 34.1 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 3155

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 9723

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

3DMark

49%
A15 Bionic Chip
Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
121%
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)
Stability %

Graphics test 140 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

80%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

0%
Turbo Clock Speed

MHz

50%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

107%
Base Frequency

4320 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
     2x 4.32 GHz – Oryon (Phoenix L)
    6x 3.53 GHz – Oryon (Phoenix M)
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 32 MB 12 MB
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 5 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W 8.2 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Adreno 830
  • Architecture - Adreno 800
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 1100 MHz
  • Execution units 5 -
  • Shading units 640 768
  • FLOPS - 3379.2 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.3
  • OpenCL version - 3.0
  • DirectX version - 12.1
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 MHz 5333 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 85.4 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 6 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 32 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Hexagon
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 3840 x 2540
  • Max camera resolution 1x 320MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, 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 X80
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 7500 Mbps -
  • 4G Download Speed - 10000 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed 3000 Mbps 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - -
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.0 6.0
  • 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

Apple A15 Bionic Chip
CPU
46%
GPU
47%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)
CPU
98%
GPU
99%
Memory
62%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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