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Apple A15 Bionic vs Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

Apple A15 Bionic
Apple A15 Bionic
Flagship
VS
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2
Upper Mid-range

In Geekbench, the Apple A15 Bionic is 114% faster in single-core and 86% faster in multi-core. Where the Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 does better: newer Arm instruction set (ARMv9-A vs ARMv8.5-A) and smaller process node (4 nm vs 5 nm).

Apple A15 Bionic vs Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2: key differences

Apple A15 Bionic

Apple A15 Bionic

  • 86% faster in Geekbench multi-core

    5,457 vs 2,933

  • 114% faster in Geekbench single-core

    2,372 vs 1,109

  • Higher peak CPU clock

    3230 MHz vs 2910 MHz

  • Larger L3 cache

    32 MB vs 8 MB

  • More GPU compute power

    1712 GFLOPS vs 1187 GFLOPS

Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

  • Newer Arm instruction set

    ARMv9-A vs ARMv8.5-A

  • Smaller process node

    4 nm vs 5 nm

  • Newer RAM type

    LPDDR5 vs LPDDR4X

  • Faster RAM

    3200 MHz vs 2133 MHz

AnTuTu and Geekbench scores

AnTuTu v11 Total

AnTuTu scores from iOS and Android are not directly comparable, so no winner is marked.

Apple A15 Bionic 12,00,314
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 13,01,013

Geekbench Single-Core

Apple A15 Bionic +114% faster 2,372
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 1,109

Geekbench Multi-Core

Apple A15 Bionic +86% faster 5,457
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 2,933

Full specifications

Green marks the better value wherever one can be measured.

Apple A15 Bionic
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

Overview

Launch Date September 2021 March 2023
Chipset Class Flagship Upper Mid-range
Manufacturer Apple Qualcomm
Model Number APL1W07 SM7475-AB

CPU

Total Cores 6 8
Core Configuration 2x 3.23 GHz Avalanche (Performance)
4x 2.02 GHz Blizzard (Efficiency)		 1x 2.91 GHz - Cortex X2
3x 2.49 GHz - Cortex A710
4x 1.8 GHz - Cortex A510
Max Frequency 3230 MHz 2910 MHz
Instruction Set ARMv8.5-A ARMv9-A
Process Node 5 nm 4 nm
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
L2 Cache 12 MB 2 MB
L3 Cache 32 MB 8 MB
TDP 6 W 6 W

GPU

GPU Name Apple A15 GPU Adreno 725
GPU Frequency 1338 MHz 580 MHz
Shading Units 128 512
FLOPS 1712 GFLOPS 1187 GFLOPS
Ray Tracing Support No No
NPU 16-core Apple Neural Engine Hexagon NPU
API Support Metal 3, Vulkan 1.3, OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL 3.0 Vulkan 1.1, OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL 2.0

Memory & Storage

RAM Type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
RAM Frequency 2133 MHz 3200 MHz
Memory Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x16-bit
Max Bandwidth 34.1 GB/s 25.6 GB/s
Max RAM Size 6 GB 16 GB
Storage Type NVMe UFS 3.1

Camera & Display

Camera Support 12 MP 200 MP
Video Capture 4K at 60 FPS 4K at 60FPS
Max Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 QHD+
Video Playback 4K at 60 FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video Codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG, ProRes H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
Audio Codecs AAC, MP3, AAX, AAX+, AC-3, AIFF, CAF, E-AC-3, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

Modem Qualcomm Snapdragon X60 Snapdragon X62 5G
Network Support 5G 5G
Download Speed 7.5 Gbps 4.4 Gbps
Upload Speed 3.0 Gbps 1.6 Gbps
Wi-Fi 6 6E
Bluetooth 5.0 5.3
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS, BeiDou GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Links

Official page - Visit

Benchmark results

Apple A15 Bionic
Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2

AnTuTu v11

AnTuTu scores from iOS and Android are not directly comparable, so no winner is marked.

Total 12,00,314 13,01,013
CPU 2,88,667 5,23,400
GPU 3,95,574 1,66,577
Memory 1,41,170 2,34,879
UX 3,74,903 3,76,157

Geekbench

Single-Core 2,372 1,109
Multi-Core 5,457 2,933

Overall Score

Each category scored out of 100.

Apple A15 Bionic Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2
CPU Score
60
50
GPU Score
65
42
Memory Score
58
64
Total Score
47
52

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