Apple A11 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral
2x 4.61 GHz –6x 3.63 GHz –
Frequency
2390 MHz
4610 MHz
Cores
6
8
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache
64 KB
1792 KB
L2 cache
0
24 MB
Process
10 nm
3 nm
Transistor count
4.3
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TDP
8 W
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Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L3 cache
—
8 MB
Graphics
GPU name
Apple A11 GPU
Adreno 840
GPU frequency
1066 MHz
1200 MHz
Execution units
3
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Shading units
64
512
Vulkan version
1.0
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OpenCL version
2.1
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DirectX version
12
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Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR4X
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
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Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
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Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Apple M10
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Storage type
NVMe
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
Max display resolution
2436 x 1125
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Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
1x 320MP
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 12
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
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Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
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Wi-Fi
5
7
Bluetooth
5.0
6.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Announced
Sep 2017
Sep 2025
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
APL1W72
SM8850
AI
NPU
—
Hexagon
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
409,550
3,115,282
Geekbench 6
1,097
3,834
Geekbench 6
2,357
12,396
FP32 (float)
409
3,686
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.