Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 vs Apple A15 Bionic
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X43x 3.15 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.26 GHz – Cortex-A520
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
Frequency
3300 MHz
3230 MHz
Cores
8
6
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8.5-A
L3 cache
0
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Process
4 nm
5 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L1 cache
—
256 KB
L2 cache
—
0
Transistor count
—
15
TDP
—
6 W
Graphics
GPU name
Adreno 750
Apple A15 GPU
GPU frequency
903 MHz
1338 MHz
Execution units
2
5
Shading units
1536
128
Vulkan version
1.3
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OpenCL version
2.0
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DirectX version
12.1
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Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
4800 MHz
2133 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
77 Gbit/s
34.1 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon
Neural Engine
Storage type
UFS 4.0
NVMe
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
2732 x 2048
Max camera resolution
1x 200MP
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Video capture
8K at 30FPS, 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+
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
Yes
Yes
Download speed
Up to 10000 Mbps
Up to 7500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
Up to 3000 Mbps
Wi-Fi
7
6
Bluetooth
5.4
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Info
Announced
Oct 2023
Sep 2021
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
SM8650-AB
APL1W07
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
2,079,542
1,290,037
Geekbench 6
2,181
2,333
Geekbench 6
7,250
5,741
FP32 (float)
4,730
1,712
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.