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Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
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Benchmarks
Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks
Single-core performance
Multi-core performance
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
Apple A15 (4 GPU Cores)
Qualcomm Adreno 740
AI performance (NPU)
Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
100 %
6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz
8C / 8T · 3.00 GHz
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Specifications
At a glance
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Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) | Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Family | Apple A series (27) | Qualcomm Snapdragon (105) |
| CPU group | Apple A15 (2) | Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (2) |
| Architecture | A15 | |
| Technology | 5 nm | 4 nm |
| Segment | Smartphone / Tablet | Smartphone / Tablet |
| Socket | ||
| Predecessor | ||
| Successor | Apple A16 Bionic (5-CPU 4-GPU) |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
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Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) | Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 |
|---|---|---|
| CPU Cores / Threads | 6 / 6 | 8 / 8 |
| Hyperthreading / SMT | ✗ | ✗ |
| Core architecture | hybrid (big.LITTLE) | hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE) |
| Core Cluster 1: | 2x Avalanche 3.23 GHz |
1x Cortex-X4 3.00 GHz |
| Core Cluster 2: | 4x Blizzard 2.02 GHz |
4x Cortex-A720 2.80 GHz |
| Core Cluster 3: | 3x Cortex-A520 2.00 GHz |
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| L2-Cache | 16.00 MB | |
| L3-Cache | 32.00 MB | 12.00 MB |
| Overclocking | ✗ | ✗ |
Integrated graphics (iGPU)
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Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) | Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 |
|---|---|---|
| GPU name | Apple A15 (4 GPU Cores) | Qualcomm Adreno 740 |
| GPU frequency | 1.34 GHz | 0.72 GHz |
| CUs / Shader | 16 / 512 | / |
| Raytracing | ✗ | ✓ |
| Max. displays | 3 | 2 |
| Max. GPU Memory | 6 GB | 6 GB |
| Technology | 5 nm | 4 nm |
| Release date | Q3/2021 | Q4/2022 |
NPU AI performance
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Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) | Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 |
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| AI hardware | Apple Neural Engine | Qualcomm AI engine |
| AI specifications | 16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS | Hexagon NPU @ 10 TOPS ? |
| NPU + CPU + iGPU |
Memory & PCIe
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Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) | Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Memory | LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s) | LPDDR5X-8400 (67.0 GB/s) |
| Max. Memory | 6 GB | 24 GB |
| Memory channels | 1 | 4 |
| ECC | No | No |
| PCIe | ||
| PCIe Bandwidth |
Thermal Management
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Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) | Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 |
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| TDP | 10 W | 10 W |
| TDP (PL2) | ||
| TDP up | ||
| TDP down | ||
| T. junction max. |
Technical details
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Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) | Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Chip design | Chiplet | Chiplet |
| AES-NI | ✗ | ✗ |
| Operating systems | iOS | Android, Windows 10/11 (ARM) |
| Instruction set | Armv8-A (64 bit) | Armv9-A (64 bit) |
| ISA extensions | ||
| Release date | Q3/2021 | Q1/2024 |
| Release price | ||
| Documents |
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Your rating
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