Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 vs Apple A15 Bionic
In Geekbench, the Apple A15 Bionic is 22% faster in single-core and 8% faster in multi-core. Where the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 does better: 4% higher peak CPU clock (3.36 GHz vs 3.23 GHz) and newer Arm instruction set (ARMv9-A vs ARMv8.5-A).
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 vs Apple A15 Bionic: key differences
Where the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 leads
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4% higher peak CPU clock
3.36 GHz vs 3.23 GHz
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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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29% more GPU compute power
2208.8 GFLOPS vs 1712 GFLOPS
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Newer RAM type
LPDDR5X vs LPDDR4X
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97% faster RAM
4200 MHz vs 2133 MHz
Where the Apple A15 Bionic leads
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4x larger L3 cache
32 MB vs 8 MB
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8% faster in Geekbench multi-core
5,457 vs 5,037
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22% faster in Geekbench single-core
2,372 vs 1,942
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
+22% fasterGeekbench Multi-Core
+8% fasterFull specifications
Green marks the better value wherever one can be measured.
Overview
- Launch Date
- November 2022
- September 2021
- Chipset Class
- Flagship
- Flagship
- Manufacturer
- Qualcomm
- Apple
- Model Number
- SM8550-AB, SM8550-AC2
- APL1W07
CPU
- Total Cores
- 8
- 6
- Core Configuration
- 1x 3.2 GHz - Cortex X3
2x 2.8 GHz - Cortex A715
2x 2.8 GHz - Cortex A710
3x 2 GHz - Cortex A510 - 2x 3.23 GHz Avalanche (Performance)
4x 2.02 GHz Blizzard (Efficiency) - Max Frequency
- 3360 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
- 8.5 W
- 6 W
GPU
- GPU Name
- Adreno 740
- Apple A15 GPU
- GPU Frequency
- 680 MHz
- 1338 MHz
- Shading Units
- 1024
- 128
- FLOPS
- 2208.8 GFLOPS
- 1712 GFLOPS
- Ray Tracing Support
- Yes
- No
- NPU
- Hexagon NPU
- 16-core Apple Neural Engine
- API Support
- Vulkan 1.3, OpenCL 2.0, OpenGL ES 3.2
- Metal 3, Vulkan 1.3, OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL 3.0
Memory & Storage
- RAM Type
- LPDDR5X
- LPDDR4X
- RAM Frequency
- 4200 MHz
- 2133 MHz
- Memory Bus
- 4x16-bit
- 4x 16 Bit
- Max Bandwidth
- 67.2 GB/s
- 34.1 GB/s
- Max RAM Size
- 24 GB
- 6 GB
- Storage Type
- UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
- NVMe
Camera & Display
- Camera Support
- 200 MP
- 12 MP
- Video Capture
- 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS, 720p at 960FPS
- 4K at 60 FPS
- Max Display Resolution
- 4K
- 2732 x 2048
- Video Playback
- 8K HDR at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
- 4K at 60 FPS
- Video Codecs
- H.264, H.265, VP9, AV1
- H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG, ProRes
- Audio Codecs
- AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
- AAC, MP3, AAX, AAX+, AC-3, AIFF, CAF, E-AC-3, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
- Modem
- Snapdragon X70 5G
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X60
- Network Support
- 5G
- 5G
- Download Speed
- 10 Gbps
- 7.5 Gbps
- Upload Speed
- 3.5 Gbps
- 3.0 Gbps
- Wi-Fi
- 7
- 6
- Bluetooth
- 5.3
- 5.0
- Navigation
- GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, QZSS, NavIC
- 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
- 17,56,001
- 12,00,314
- CPU
- 5,58,984
- 2,88,667
- GPU
- 4,39,885
- 3,95,574
- Memory
- 3,01,880
- 1,41,170
- UX
- 4,55,252
- 3,74,903
Geekbench
- Single-Core
- 1,942
- 2,372
- Multi-Core
- 5,037
- 5,457
Overall Score
Each category scored out of 100.
Total Score
+31 pointsCPU Score
+4 pointsGPU Score
+14 pointsMemory Score
+32 pointsMore Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and Apple A15 Bionic comparisons
Each chip against rivals with a similar overall score.
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