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Apple A11 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

Last updated: 2026-06-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 96 %

Apple A11 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 64 %

Apple A11 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

1,093

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,121

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

1,997

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

3,110

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

932

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

996

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

2,569

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

3,240

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A11

409

Qualcomm Adreno 650

1,418

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark

6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

295,465 pts

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

651,364 pts

AI performance (NPU)

6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

0.6 TOPS

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

15.0 TOPS

More benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 entries

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 870
Family	Apple A series (27)	Qualcomm Snapdragon (105)
CPU group	Apple A11 (1)	Qualcomm Snapdragon 865/870 (3)
Architecture	A11	Kryo 585
Technology	10 nm	7 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket
Predecessor	Apple A10 Fusion
Successor	Apple A12 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 870
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x Monsoon 2.39 GHz	1x Kryo 585 Prime 3.20 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Mistral 1.19 GHz	3x Kryo 585 Gold 2.42 GHz
Core Cluster 3:		4x Kryo 585 Silver 1.80 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB	2.00 MB
L3-Cache		7.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 870
GPU name	Apple A11	Qualcomm Adreno 650
GPU frequency	1.07 GHz	0.25 - 0.67 GHz
CUs / Shader	12 / 192	2 / 512
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	1	1
Max. GPU Memory	3 GB
Technology	10 nm	7 nm
Release date	Q3/2017	Q4/2019

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 870
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	Qualcomm AI engine
AI specifications	2 Neural cores @ 0.6 TOPS	Hexagon 698 @ 15 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 870
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)	LPDDR5-5500 (44.0 GB/s) LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory	3 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	1	4
ECC	No	No
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 870
TDP	8 W	10 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 870
Chip design	Chiplet	Chiplet
AES-NI	✗	✗
Operating systems	iOS	Android
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release date	Q3/2017	Q2/2021
Release price
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple A11 Bionic is 3.6 stars (54 ratings), while Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 has received 4.2 stars (159 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A11 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

★★★★★

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870
8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

★★★★★