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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 vs A15 Bionic Chip – specs and benchmarks

Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Vs A15 Bionic Chip

Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
VS
A15 Bionic Chip
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
A15 Bionic Chip
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 vs A15 Bionic Chip SoCs by Qualcomm and Apple respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 8-core and 6-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.
  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Benchmarks
  4. AnTuTu v9
  5. GeekBench 5
  6. Specs

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
46
A15 Bionic Chip
55
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
48
A15 Bionic Chip
56
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
86
A15 Bionic Chip
82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
60
A15 Bionic Chip
64

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has 20% smaller sized transistor than A15 Bionic Chip (4 vs 5 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has 28.13% better AnTuTu 9 score than A15 Bionic Chip (1,037 K vs 809 K).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has latest instruction set, hence better than A15 Bionic Chip.
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Support 50.15% higher memory bandwidth than A15 Bionic Chip (51.2 vs 34.1 MHz).
Pros of Apple A15 Bionic Chip
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 7.67% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (3230 vs 3000 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 50.00% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (1200 vs 800 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 33.31% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (4266 vs 3200 MHz).

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
vs
A15 Bionic Chip

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +29%
1036722
A15 Bionic Chip
809118
CPU 249768 209204
GPU 448381 351594
Memory 172528 118044
UX 166045 130276
Total score 1036722 809118
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
1221
A15 Bionic Chip +43%
1743
Multi-Core Score
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
3589
A15 Bionic Chip +35%
4844
Image compression 180.6 Mpixels/s 224.8 Mpixels/s
Face detection 25.25 images/s 43.1 images/s
Speech recognition 54.7 words/s 136.1 words/s
Machine learning 56.95 images/s 104.9 images/s
Camera shooting 28 images/s 49.3 images/s
HTML 5 3 Mnodes/s 5.64 Mnodes/s
SQLite 989.1 Mnodes/s 1270 Mnodes/s

3DMark

70%
SD 8 Gen 1
73%
Apple A15
Score: 9524

Stability 88% 82%
Graphics test 54 FPS 56 FPS
Score 9041 9524

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and Apple A15 Bionic Chip

Display

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

  CPU

79%
SD 8 Gen 1
85%
Apple A15
Processor Speed (Frequency)

Architecture 1x 3 GHz Cortex-X2
3x 2.5 GHz Cortex-A710
4x 1.8 GHz Cortex-A510
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
Cores 8 6
Base Frequency 1800 MHz 2020 MHz
Turbo Frequency 3000 MHz 3230 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.5-A
L1 cache - 256 KB
L2 cache 1 MB 32 MB
L3 cache 4 MB -
Process 4 nm 5 nm
Transistor count - 15 Billion
TDP - 6 W

Graphics

GPU name Adreno 730 Apple GPU
Architecture Adreno 700 -
GPU frequency 800 MHz 1200 MHz
Execution units 3 5
Shading units 768 640
FLOPS - -
Vulkan version 1.1 -
OpenCL version 2 -
DirectX version 12 -

Memory

Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 3200 MHz 4266 MHz
Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 34.1 Gbit/s
Max size 24 GB 6 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon Neural Engine
Storage type UFS 3.1 NVMe
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2732 x 2048
Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 64MP
Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

Connectivity

Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
2560
A15 Bionic Chip
N/A
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
10240
A15 Bionic Chip
7500
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
316
A15 Bionic Chip
N/A
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
3072
A15 Bionic Chip
3000
Modem Snapdragon X65 -
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
5G support Yes Yes
Peak Download speed Up to 10240 Mbps Up to 7500 Mbps
Peak Upload speed Up to 3072 Mbps Up to 3000 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 6
Bluetooth 5.2 5.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Announced Date December 2021 September 2021
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number SM8450 APL1W07
Official page Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 official site A15 Bionic Chip official site
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
CPU
46%
GPU
48%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

54.5


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

48.25


Review By TenzysTech

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