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Apple A7 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 615

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A7
Rank 2 - 39 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon 615
Multi-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A7
Rank 2 - 73 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon 615
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

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

Apple A7
Apple A7 100 %
2C / 2T · 1.40 GHz
278
Qualcomm Snapdragon 615
8C / 8T · 1.50 GHz
109
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

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

Apple A7
Apple A7 100 %
2C / 2T · 1.40 GHz
528
Qualcomm Snapdragon 615
8C / 8T · 1.50 GHz
387
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A7
Apple A7 100 %
PowerVR G6430
115
Qualcomm Snapdragon 615
Qualcomm Adreno 405
53

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Apple A7Qualcomm Snapdragon 615
FamilyApple A series (27)Qualcomm Snapdragon (105)
CPU groupApple A7 (1)Qualcomm Snapdragon 610 (4)
ArchitectureA7Cortex-A53
Technology28 nm28 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletSmartphone / Tablet
Socket
PredecessorApple A6
SuccessorApple A8

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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Apple A7Qualcomm Snapdragon 615
CPU Cores / Threads2 / 28 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturenormalhybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1: 2x Cyclone
1.40 GHz
4x Cortex-A53
1.50 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 4x Cortex-A53
1.00 GHz
L2-Cache1.00 MB
L3-Cache4.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Apple A7Qualcomm Snapdragon 615
GPU namePowerVR G6430Qualcomm Adreno 405
GPU frequency0.45 GHz0.55 - 0.55 GHz
CUs / Shader16 / 128 / 48
Raytracing
Max. displays20
Max. GPU Memory
Technology28 nm28 nm
Release dateQ3/2013Q1/2014

NPU AI performance

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Apple A7Qualcomm Snapdragon 615
AI hardwareQualcomm AI engine
AI specificationsHexagon
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Apple A7Qualcomm Snapdragon 615
MemoryLPDDR3-1333 (12.8 GB/s)
LPDDR3-1600 (6.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory1 GB4 GB
Memory channels11
ECCNoNo
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

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Apple A7Qualcomm Snapdragon 615
TDP
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

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Apple A7Qualcomm Snapdragon 615
Chip designChipletChiplet
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOSAndroid
Instruction setArmv8-A (64 bit)Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release dateQ3/2013Q3/2014
Release price
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

Your rating

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Apple A7
Apple A7
2C / 2T · 1.40 GHz
Qualcomm Snapdragon 615
Qualcomm Snapdragon 615
8C / 8T · 1.50 GHz

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Apple A7
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