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

Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 Vs A15 Bionic Chip

Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
VS
A15 Bionic Chip
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
A15 Bionic Chip
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 8 Plus 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 Plus Gen 1
49
A15 Bionic Chip
55
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
51
A15 Bionic Chip
56
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
86
A15 Bionic Chip
82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
62
A15 Bionic Chip
64

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 has 20% smaller sized transistor than A15 Bionic Chip (4 vs 5 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 has 35.69% better AnTuTu 9 score than A15 Bionic Chip (1,098 K vs 809 K).
  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 has latest instruction set, hence better than A15 Bionic Chip.
  • Snapdragon 8 Plus 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 0.94% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 (3230 vs 3200 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 33.33% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 (1200 vs 900 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 33.31% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 (4266 vs 3200 MHz).

Benchmarks

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

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 +37%
1097914
A15 Bionic Chip
809118
CPU 243697 209204
GPU 478120 351594
Memory 191931 118044
UX 184166 130276
Total score 1097914 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 Plus Gen 1
1311
A15 Bionic Chip +33%
1743
Multi-Core Score
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
4117
A15 Bionic Chip +18%
4844
Image compression - 224.8 Mpixels/s
Face detection - 43.1 images/s
Speech recognition - 136.1 words/s
Machine learning - 104.9 images/s
Camera shooting - 49.3 images/s
HTML 5 - 5.64 Mnodes/s
SQLite - 1270 Mnodes/s

3DMark

76%
SD 8 Plus Gen 1
73%
Apple A15
Score: 9875

Stability 69% 82%
Graphics test 59 FPS 56 FPS
Score 9875 9524

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus 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+ -
Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
Color Gamut Rec2021 -

  CPU

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

Architecture 1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X2
3x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A710
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
Cores 8 6
Base Frequency 2000 MHz 2020 MHz
Turbo Frequency 3200 MHz 3230 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.5-A
L1 cache - 256 KB
L2 cache - 32 MB
L3 cache 6 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 900 MHz 1200 MHz
Execution units - 5
Shading units - 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 Plus Gen 1
2500
A15 Bionic Chip
N/A
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
10240
A15 Bionic Chip
7500
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
316
A15 Bionic Chip
N/A
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
N/A
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 3000 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 6
Bluetooth 5.3 5.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Announced Date May 2022 September 2021
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number - APL1W07
Official page Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 official site A15 Bionic Chip official site
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
CPU
49%
GPU
51%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

56


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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