Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Vs 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.
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 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 benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| 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
Multi-Core Score
| 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 173%
Apple A15Score: 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 ChipDisplay
| 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 185%
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)
5G (MB/s)
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
| 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
54.5
Review By TenzysTech
Apple A15 Bionic Chip
48.25
Review By TenzysTech
