Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 vs Apple A15 Bionic
In Geekbench, the Apple A15 Bionic is 2.2x faster in single-core and 88% faster in multi-core. Where the Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 does better: newer Arm instruction set (ARMv9-A vs ARMv8.5-A) and smaller process node (4 nm vs 5 nm).
Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 vs Apple A15 Bionic: key differences
Where the Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 leads
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Newer Arm instruction set
ARMv9-A vs ARMv8.5-A
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Smaller process node
4 nm vs 5 nm
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Newer RAM type
LPDDR5, LPDDR4X vs LPDDR4X
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50% faster RAM
3200 MHz vs 2133 MHz
Where the Apple A15 Bionic leads
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40% higher peak CPU clock
3.23 GHz vs 2.3 GHz
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4x larger L3 cache
32 MB vs 8 MB
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3.7x more GPU compute power
1712 GFLOPS vs 458.2 GFLOPS
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88% faster in Geekbench multi-core
5,457 vs 2,903
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2.2x faster in Geekbench single-core
2,372 vs 1,066
AnTuTu and Geekbench scores
AnTuTu v11 Total
AnTuTu scores from iOS and Android are not directly comparable, so no winner is marked.
Geekbench Single-Core
2.2x fasterGeekbench Multi-Core
+88% fasterFull specifications
Green marks the better value wherever one can be measured.
Overview
- Launch Date
- February 2025
- September 2021
- Chipset Class
- Mid-range
- Flagship
- Manufacturer
- Qualcomm
- Apple
- Model Number
- SM6650
- APL1W07
CPU
- Total Cores
- 8
- 6
- Core Configuration
- 1x 2.3GHz - Cortex A720
3x 2.2GHz - Cortex A720
4x 1.8GHz - Cortex A520 - 2x 3.23 GHz Avalanche (Performance)
4x 2.02 GHz Blizzard (Efficiency) - Max Frequency
- 2300 MHz
- 3230 MHz
- Instruction Set
- ARMv9-A
- ARMv8.5-A
- Process Node
- 4 nm
- 5 nm
- Manufacturing
- TSMC
- TSMC
- L2 Cache
- 1 MB
- 12 MB
- L3 Cache
- 8 MB
- 32 MB
- TDP
- 5 W
- 6 W
GPU
- GPU Name
- Adreno 810
- Apple A15 GPU
- GPU Frequency
- 895 MHz
- 1338 MHz
- Shading Units
- 128
- 128
- FLOPS
- 458.2 GFLOPS
- 1712 GFLOPS
- Ray Tracing Support
- No
- No
- NPU
- Hexagon NPU
- 16-core Apple Neural Engine
- API Support
- Vulkan 1.3, OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL 2.0
- Metal 3, Vulkan 1.3, OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL 3.0
Memory & Storage
- RAM Type
- LPDDR5, LPDDR4X
- LPDDR4X
- RAM Frequency
- 3200 MHz
- 2133 MHz
- Memory Bus
- 2x 16-bit
- 4x 16 Bit
- Max Bandwidth
- 25.6 GB/s
- 34.1 GB/s
- Max RAM Size
- 16 GB
- 6 GB
- Storage Type
- UFS 3.1
- NVMe
Camera & Display
- Camera Support
- 200MP
- 12 MP
- Video Capture
- 4K at 30FPS
- 4K at 60 FPS
- Max Display Resolution
- Full HD+
- 2732 x 2048
- Video Playback
- 4K at 60FPS
- 4K at 60 FPS
- Video Codecs
- H.264, H.265, VP9
- H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG, ProRes
- Audio Codecs
- AAC LC, aptX Adaptive, LDAC
- AAC, MP3, AAX, AAX+, AC-3, AIFF, CAF, E-AC-3, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
- Modem
- Snapdragon X62 5G
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X60
- Network Support
- 5G
- 5G
- Download Speed
- 2.9 Gbps
- 7.5 Gbps
- Upload Speed
- 1.6 Gbps
- 3.0 Gbps
- Wi-Fi
- 6E
- 6
- Bluetooth
- 5.4
- 5.0
- Navigation
- GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo
- GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS, BeiDou
Links
Benchmark results
Every AnTuTu and Geekbench result for both chips. Green marks the higher score.
AnTuTu v11
AnTuTu scores from iOS and Android are not directly comparable, so no winner is marked.
- Total
- 9,81,995
- 12,00,314
- CPU
- 3,84,338
- 2,88,667
- GPU
- 1,62,050
- 3,95,574
- Memory
- 1,85,277
- 1,41,170
- UX
- 2,50,330
- 3,74,903
Geekbench
- Single-Core
- 1,066
- 2,372
- Multi-Core
- 2,903
- 5,457
Overall Score
Each category scored out of 100.
Total Score
+1 pointCPU Score
+17 pointsGPU Score
+27 pointsMemory Score
+5 pointsMore Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 and Apple A15 Bionic comparisons
Each chip against rivals with a similar overall score.
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