Product Compare

Apple A15 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4

SOC SOC
CPU
Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard 1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X43x 3 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.02 GHz – Cortex-A720
Frequency 3230 MHz 3200 MHz
Cores 6 8
Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 256 KB
L2 cache 0 2.75 MB
Process 5 nm 4 nm
Transistor count 15
TDP 6 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
L3 cache 8 MB
Graphics
GPU name Apple A15 GPU Adreno 825
GPU frequency 1338 MHz 1150 MHz
Execution units 5
Shading units 128
Memory
Memory Type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
Memory frequency 2133 MHz 4800 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 76.8 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine
Storage type NVMe UFS 4.0
Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 3840 x 2160
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max camera resolution 1x 320MP
Connectivity
4G support LTE Cat. 24
5G support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 7500 Mbps Up to 4200 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 3000 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 7
Bluetooth 5.0 6.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Announced Sep 2021 Apr 2025
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number APL1W07 SM8735
Official page Official Link ↗
AI
NPU Hexagon
Benchmarks
AnTuTu 10 1290037 2186467
Geekbench 6 Single Core 2333 2159
Geekbench 6 Multi Core 5741 7227