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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 vs Apple A11 Bionic

Last updated: 2026-07-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Rank 2 - 51 %

Apple A11 Bionic

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Rank 2 - 35 %

Apple A11 Bionic

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.40 GHz

2,293

6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

1,093

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.40 GHz

7,117

6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

1,997

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

8C / 8T · 3.40 GHz

1,701

6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

932

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

8C / 8T · 3.40 GHz

6,280

6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

2,569

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Qualcomm Adreno 750

2,287

Apple A11

409

AI performance (NPU)

8C / 8T · 3.40 GHz

34.0 TOPS

6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

0.6 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 10 Benchmark
25 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	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3	Apple A11 Bionic
Family	Qualcomm Snapdragon (105)	Apple A series (27)
CPU group	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (2)	Apple A11 (1)
Architecture		A11
Technology	4 nm	10 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket
Predecessor	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2	Apple A10 Fusion
Successor	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite	Apple A12 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3	Apple A11 Bionic
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	6 / 6
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	1x Cortex-X4 3.40 GHz	2x Monsoon 2.39 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	5x Cortex-A720 2.96 - 3.15 GHz	4x Mistral 1.19 GHz
Core Cluster 3:	2x Cortex-A520 2.27 GHz
L2-Cache		8.00 MB
L3-Cache	12.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3	Apple A11 Bionic
GPU name	Qualcomm Adreno 750	Apple A11
GPU frequency	0.90 GHz	1.07 GHz
CUs / Shader	/	12 / 192
Raytracing	✓	✗
Max. displays	2	1
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB	3 GB
Technology	4 nm	10 nm
Release date	Q4/2023	Q3/2017

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3	Apple A11 Bionic
AI hardware	Qualcomm AI engine	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	Hexagon NPU @ 34 TOPS	2 Neural cores @ 0.6 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3	Apple A11 Bionic
Memory	LPDDR5X-9600 (76.6 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory	24 GB	3 GB
Memory channels	4	1
ECC	No	No
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3	Apple A11 Bionic
TDP	12.5 W	8 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3	Apple A11 Bionic
Chip design	Chiplet	Chiplet
AES-NI	✗	✗
Operating systems	Android, Windows 10/11 (ARM)	iOS
Instruction set	Armv9-A (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release date	Q4/2023	Q3/2017
Release price	190 $
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is 4.2 stars (481 ratings), while Apple A11 Bionic has received 3.6 stars (57 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
8C / 8T · 3.40 GHz

★★★★★

Apple A11 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

★★★★★