A15 Bionic Chip Vs Snapdragon 888
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Snapdragon 888 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.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of Apple A15 Bionic Chip
- A15 Bionic Chip has 13.73% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 (3230 vs 2840 MHz).
- A15 Bionic Chip has 42.86% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 (1200 vs 840 MHz).
- A15 Bionic Chip has 33.31% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 888 (4266 vs 3200 MHz).
- A15 Bionic Chip has 0.08% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 888 (809 K vs 808 K).
- A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 888.
Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
- Snapdragon 888 Support 50.15% higher memory bandwidth than A15 Bionic Chip (51.2 vs 34.1 GB/s).
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| CPU | 209204 | 211734 |
| GPU | 351594 | 306250 |
| Memory | 118044 | 133870 |
| UX | 130276 | 156641 |
| Total score | 809118 | 808495 |
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | 224.8 Mpixels/s | 177.1 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | 43.1 images/s | 26.5 images/s |
| Speech recognition | 136.1 words/s | 67.7 words/s |
| Machine learning | 104.9 images/s | 59.9 images/s |
| Camera shooting | 49.3 images/s | 37.5 images/s |
| HTML 5 | 5.64 Mnodes/s | 3.96 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | 1270 Mnodes/s | 1060 Mnodes/s |
3DMark
73%
Apple A1540%
SD 888Score: 9524
| Stability | 82% | 91% |
| Graphics test | 56 FPS | 30 FPS |
| Score | 9524 | 5126 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Apple A15 Bionic Chip and Qualcomm Snapdragon 888Display
| Max On-Device Display | - | 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz |
| Max On-Display Resolution | 2732 x 2048 | 3840 x 2160 |
| Max External Display | - | 4K @ 60 Hz |
| HDR | - | Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, HDR10 |
| Color Depth | - | Up to 10-bit |
| Color Gamut | - | Rec. 2020 |
CPU
85%
Apple A1575%
SD 888
Processor Speed (Frequency)
| Architecture |
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche 4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard |
1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1) 3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78) 4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55) |
| Cores | 6 | 8 |
| Base Frequency | 2020 MHz | 1800 MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 3230 MHz | 2840 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8.5-A | ARMv8.4-A |
| L1 cache | 256 KB | 512 KB |
| L2 cache | 32 MB | 1 MB |
| L3 cache | - | 4 MB |
| Process | 5 nm | 5 nm |
| Transistor count | 15 Billion | - |
| TDP | 6 W | 10 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Apple GPU | Adreno 660 |
| Architecture | - | Adreno 600 |
| GPU frequency | 1200 MHz | 840 MHz |
| Execution units | 5 | 2 |
| Shading units | 640 | 512 |
| FLOPS | - | 1720 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | - | 1.1 |
| OpenCL version | - | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | - | 12 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR5 |
| Memory frequency | 4266 MHz | 3200 MHz |
| Bus | 4x 16 Bit | 4x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 34.1 Gbit/s | 51.2 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 6 GB | 24 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Neural Engine | Hexagon 780 |
| 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 120FPS |
| 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 |
Connectivity
Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
| Modem | - | X60 |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 24 | LTE Cat. 22 |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
| Peak Download speed | Up to 7500 Mbps | Up to 7500 Mbps |
| Peak Upload speed | Up to 3000 Mbps | Up to 3000 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 6 |
| Bluetooth | 5.0 | 5.2 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC |
Info
| Announced Date | September 2021 | December 2020 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | APL1W07 | SM8350 |
| Official page | A15 Bionic Chip official site | Snapdragon 888 official site |
Apple A15 Bionic Chip
60.75
Review By TenzysTech
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
40.75
Review By TenzysTech
