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Apple A15 Bionic Chip

A15 Bionic Chip

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

Snapdragon 888 Plus
Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Snapdragon 888 Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Snapdragon 888 Plus 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 888 Plus 43
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 56
Snapdragon 888 Plus 39
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Snapdragon 888 Plus 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Snapdragon 888 Plus 55
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Snapdragon 888 Plus
CPU 209204 216591
GPU 351594 324286
Memory 118044 138188
UX 130276 167760
Total score 809118 846825
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 7.85% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 Plus (3230 vs 2995 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 32.60% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 Plus (1200 vs 905 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 33.31% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 888 Plus (4266 vs 3200 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 888 Plus.

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

  • Snapdragon 888 Plus has 4.66% better AnTuTu 9 score than A15 Bionic Chip (847 K vs 809 K ).
  • Snapdragon 888 Plus Support 50.15% higher memory bandwidth than A15 Bionic Chip (51.2 vs 34.1 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Snapdragon 888 Plus 1171

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Snapdragon 888 Plus 3704

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Snapdragon 888 Plus

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Snapdragon 888 Plus

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Snapdragon 888 Plus

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Snapdragon 888 Plus

3DMark

49%
A15 Bionic Chip
Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
30%
Snapdragon 888 Plus
Stability 99%

Graphics test 33 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • 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
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

2995 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
     1x 2.995 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
  • 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 10.3 Billion
  • TDP 6 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Adreno 660
  • Architecture - Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 905 MHz
  • Execution units 5 2
  • Shading units 640 512
  • FLOPS - 1853 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • OpenCL version - 2.0
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 6 GB 24 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 780
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 2000MP, 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
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - X60
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 22
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • 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
55%
GPU
56%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
CPU
43%
GPU
39%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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