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Apple A15 Bionic Chip

A15 Bionic Chip

78

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

Snapdragon 860
Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Snapdragon 860

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Snapdragon 860 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 860 29
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 56
Snapdragon 860 24
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Snapdragon 860 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Snapdragon 860 43
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Snapdragon 860
CPU 209204 143028
GPU 351594 179320
Memory 118044 69420
UX 130276 72190
Total score 809118 463958
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 9.12% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (3230 vs 2960 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 77.78% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (1200 vs 675 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 100.00% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 860 (4266 vs 2133 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 28.57% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 860 (5 vs 7 nm).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 74.39% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 860 (809 K vs 464 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

  • Snapdragon 860 Support 0.09% higher memory bandwidth than A15 Bionic Chip (34.13 vs 34.1 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Snapdragon 860 744

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Snapdragon 860 2616

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Snapdragon 860 142.85

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Snapdragon 860 20.3

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Snapdragon 860 44.55

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Snapdragon 860 46.35

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Snapdragon 860 22.85

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Snapdragon 860 1.65

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Snapdragon 860 777.9

3DMark

49%
A15 Bionic Chip
Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
18%
Snapdragon 860
Stability 98%

Graphics test 20 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 QHD @ 60Hz
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - HDR10+
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

78%
Turbo Clock Speed

2960 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
     1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.1-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 32 MB -
  • L3 cache - 2 MB
  • Process 5 nm 7 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Adreno 640
  • Architecture - Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 675 MHz
  • Execution units 5 2
  • Shading units 640 384
  • FLOPS - 1037 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 34.13 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 6 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4 x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Hexagon 690
  • Storage type NVMe EMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - X24 LTE, X50 5G
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 20
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Apple A15 Bionic Chip

Apple A15 Bionic Chip
CPU
55%
GPU
56%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
CPU
29%
GPU
24%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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