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Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 vs Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
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Benchmarks
Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks
Single-core performance
Multi-core performance
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance
8C / 8T · 3.00 GHz
Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
100 %
6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance
8C / 8T · 3.00 GHz
Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
100 %
6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
Qualcomm Adreno 685
Apple A15 (5 GPU Cores)
More benchmarks
Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries
427 entries
Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries
422 entries
Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries
1,989 entries
Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries
1,927 entries
Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries
2,512 entries
Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries
2,483 entries
FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries
2,219 entries
AnTuTu 10 Benchmark
25 entries
25 entries
AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 entries
90 entries
AI performance (NPU)
218 entries
218 entries
Specifications
At a glance
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Wischen
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Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 | Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| Family | Qualcomm Snapdragon (105) | Apple A series (27) |
| CPU group | Qualcomm Snapdragon SQ1/SQ2 (2) | Apple A15 (2) |
| Architecture | Kryo 495 | A15 |
| Technology | 7 nm | 5 nm |
| Segment | Notebook | Smartphone / Tablet |
| Socket | ||
| Predecessor | Apple A14 Bionic | |
| Successor | Apple A16 Bionic |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
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Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 | Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| CPU Cores / Threads | 8 / 8 | 6 / 6 |
| Hyperthreading / SMT | ✗ | ✗ |
| Core architecture | hybrid (big.LITTLE) | hybrid (big.LITTLE) |
| Core Cluster 1: | 4x Kryo 495 Gold 3.00 GHz |
2x Avalanche 3.23 GHz |
| Core Cluster 2: | 4x Kryo 495 Silver 1.80 GHz |
4x Blizzard 2.02 GHz |
| L2-Cache | 16.00 MB | |
| L3-Cache | 2.00 MB | 32.00 MB |
| Overclocking | ✗ | ✗ |
Integrated graphics (iGPU)
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Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 | Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| GPU name | Qualcomm Adreno 685 | Apple A15 (5 GPU Cores) |
| GPU frequency | 0.25 - 0.65 GHz | 1.34 GHz |
| CUs / Shader | 8 / 1536 | 20 / 640 |
| Raytracing | ✗ | ✗ |
| Max. displays | 2 | 3 |
| Max. GPU Memory | 4 GB | 6 GB |
| Technology | 7 nm | 5 nm |
| Release date | Q4/2018 | Q3/2021 |
NPU AI performance
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Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 | Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| AI hardware | Apple Neural Engine | |
| AI specifications | 16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS | |
| NPU + CPU + iGPU |
Memory & PCIe
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Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 | Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| Memory | LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s) | LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s) |
| Max. Memory | 16 GB | 6 GB |
| Memory channels | 8 | 1 |
| ECC | No | No |
| PCIe | ||
| PCIe Bandwidth |
Thermal Management
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Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 | Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU) |
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| TDP | 7 W | 10 W |
| TDP (PL2) | ||
| TDP up | ||
| TDP down | ||
| T. junction max. |
Technical details
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Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 | Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| Chip design | Chiplet | Chiplet |
| AES-NI | ✗ | ✗ |
| Operating systems | Android, Windows 10 (ARM) | iOS |
| Instruction set | Armv8-A (64 bit) | Armv8-A (64 bit) |
| ISA extensions | ||
| Release date | Q3/2019 | Q3/2021 |
| Release price | ||
| Documents |
User Reviews
Your rating
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Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
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Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1
8C / 8T · 0.00 GHz
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