Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 vs Apple A15 Bionic

SOC · Specs Compare

SOC Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Qualcomm

SOC Apple A15 Bionic Apple

CPU

Architecture

2x 4.61 GHz –6x 3.63 GHz –

2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard

Frequency

4610 MHz

3230 MHz

Cores

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

ARMv8.5-A

L1 cache

1792 KB

256 KB

L2 cache

24 MB

L3 cache

8 MB

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Process

3 nm

5 nm

Manufacturing

TSMC

Transistor count

—

TDP

—

6 W

Graphics

GPU name

Adreno 840

Apple A15 GPU

GPU frequency

1200 MHz

1338 MHz

Shading units

512

128

Execution units

—

Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR5X

LPDDR4X

Bus

4x 16 Bit

Memory frequency

—

2133 MHz

Max bandwidth

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34.1 Gbit/s

NPU

Hexagon

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Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type

UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1

NVMe

Max camera resolution

1x 320MP

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Video capture

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video codecs

- H.264- H.265- AV1- 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+

Neural processor (NPU)

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Neural Engine

Max display resolution

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2732 x 2048

Connectivity

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

5G support

Yes

Wi-Fi

Bluetooth

6.0

5.0

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Download speed

—

Up to 7500 Mbps

Upload speed

—

Up to 3000 Mbps

Info

Announced

Sep 2025

Sep 2021

Class

Flagship

Model number

SM8850

APL1W07

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

3,115,282

1,290,037

Geekbench 6

3,834

2,333

Geekbench 6

12,396

5,741

FP32 (float)

3,686

1,712

▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.