Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 vs Apple A15 Bionic
Geekbench is split: the Apple A15 Bionic is 10% faster in single-core, while the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is 21% faster in multi-core. Where the Apple A15 Bionic does better: 2.7x larger L3 cache (32 MB vs 12 MB).
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 vs Apple A15 Bionic: key differences
Where the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 leads
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5% higher peak CPU clock
3.4 GHz vs 3.23 GHz
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Newer Arm instruction set
ARMv9.2-A vs ARMv8.5-A
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Smaller process node
TSMC 4 nm vs 5 nm
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2.1x more GPU compute power
3584 GFLOPS vs 1712 GFLOPS
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Newer RAM type
LPDDR5X vs LPDDR4X
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2.3x faster RAM
4800 MHz vs 2133 MHz
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21% faster in Geekbench multi-core
6,626 vs 5,457
Where the Apple A15 Bionic leads
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2.7x larger L3 cache
32 MB vs 12 MB
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10% faster in Geekbench single-core
2,372 vs 2,162
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
+10% fasterGeekbench Multi-Core
+21% fasterFull specifications
Green marks the better value wherever one can be measured.
Overview
- Launch Date
- October 2023
- September 2021
- Chipset Class
- Flagship
- Flagship
- Manufacturer
- Qualcomm
- Apple
- Model Number
- SM8650-AB, SM8650-AC
- APL1W07
CPU
- Total Cores
- 8
- 6
- Core Configuration
- 1x 3.3 GHz - Cortex X4
3x 3.15 GHz - Cortex A720
2x 2.96 GHz - Cortex A720
2x 2.27 GHz - Cortex A520 - 2x 3.23 GHz Avalanche (Performance)
4x 2.02 GHz Blizzard (Efficiency) - Max Frequency
- 3400 MHz
- 3230 MHz
- Instruction Set
- ARMv9.2-A
- ARMv8.5-A
- Process Node
- TSMC 4 nm
- 5 nm
- Manufacturing
- TSMC
- TSMC
- L2 Cache
- 1 MB
- 12 MB
- L3 Cache
- 12 MB
- 32 MB
- TDP
- 8 W
- 6 W
GPU
- GPU Name
- Adreno 750
- Apple A15 GPU
- GPU Frequency
- 903 MHz - 1000 MHz
- 1338 MHz
- Shading Units
- 1536
- 128
- FLOPS
- 3584 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
- 4800 MHz
- 2133 MHz
- Memory Bus
- 4x16-bit
- 4x 16 Bit
- Max Bandwidth
- 76.8 GB/s
- 34.1 GB/s
- Max RAM Size
- 24 GB
- 6 GB
- Storage Type
- 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 at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
- 4K at 60 FPS
- Video Codecs
- H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9
- 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 X75 5G
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X60
- Network Support
- 5G
- 5G
- Download Speed
- 10 Gbps
- 7.5 Gbps
- Upload Speed
- Up to 3.5 Gbps
- 3.0 Gbps
- Wi-Fi
- 7
- 6
- Bluetooth
- 5.4
- 5.0
- Navigation
- GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, 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
- 23,68,420
- 12,00,314
- CPU
- 6,52,232
- 2,88,667
- GPU
- 8,24,065
- 3,95,574
- Memory
- 3,30,935
- 1,41,170
- UX
- 5,61,188
- 3,74,903
Geekbench
- Single-Core
- 2,162
- 2,372
- Multi-Core
- 6,626
- 5,457
Overall Score
Each category scored out of 100.
Total Score
+39 pointsCPU Score
+16 pointsGPU Score
+21 pointsMemory Score
+37 pointsMore Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and Apple A15 Bionic comparisons
Each chip against rivals with a similar overall score.
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