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58

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Apple A15 Bionic Chip

A15 Bionic Chip

45

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

Snapdragon 870
Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Snapdragon 870

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Snapdragon 870 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 870 32
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 47
Snapdragon 870 27
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Snapdragon 870 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 58
Snapdragon 870 45
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Snapdragon 870
CPU 209204 179347
GPU 351594 270188
Memory 118044 98761
UX 130276 95818
Total score 809118 644114
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 0.94% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 870 (3230 vs 3200 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 86.05% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 870 (1200 vs 645 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 55.13% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 870 (4266 vs 2750 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 28.57% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 870 (5 vs 7 nm).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 25.62% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 870 (809 K vs 644 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 870.

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

  • Snapdragon 870 Support 29.03% higher memory bandwidth than A15 Bionic Chip (44 vs 34.1 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Snapdragon 870 1038

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Snapdragon 870 3569

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Snapdragon 870 180.6

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Snapdragon 870 25.25

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Snapdragon 870 54.7

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Snapdragon 870 56.95

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Snapdragon 870 28

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Snapdragon 870

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Snapdragon 870 989.1

3DMark

49%
A15 Bionic Chip
Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
22%
Snapdragon 870
Stability 90%

Graphics test 25 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - 4K @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - HDR10+, HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

80%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

50%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

44%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
     1x 3.2 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB 512 KB
  • L2 cache 32 MB 1 MB
  • L3 cache - 4 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 650
  • Architecture - Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 645 MHz
  • Execution units 5 2
  • Shading units 640 512
  • FLOPS - 1,267 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 MHz 2750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 44 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 6 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Hexagon 698
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS
  • 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+ AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - X55
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 5G Download Speed 7500 Mbps 7500 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed - 2500 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed 3000 Mbps 3000 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed - 316 Mbps
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, 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 870

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870
CPU
32%
GPU
27%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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