Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 vs Apple A15 Bionic
Geekbench is split: the Apple A15 Bionic is 14% faster in single-core, while the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 is 19% faster in multi-core. Where the Apple A15 Bionic does better: 1% higher peak CPU clock (3.23 GHz vs 3.2 GHz) and 4x larger L3 cache (32 MB vs 8 MB).
Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 vs Apple A15 Bionic: key differences
Where the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 leads
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Newer Arm instruction set
ARMv9.2-A vs ARMv8.5-A
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Smaller process node
4 nm vs 5 nm
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38% more GPU compute power
2355 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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19% faster in Geekbench multi-core
6,511 vs 5,457
Where the Apple A15 Bionic leads
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1% higher peak CPU clock
3.23 GHz vs 3.2 GHz
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4x larger L3 cache
32 MB vs 8 MB
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14% faster in Geekbench single-core
2,372 vs 2,073
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
+14% fasterGeekbench Multi-Core
+19% fasterFull specifications
Green marks the better value wherever one can be measured.
Overview
- Launch Date
- Apirl 2025
- September 2021
- Chipset Class
- Flagship
- Flagship
- Manufacturer
- Qualcomm
- Apple
- Model Number
- SM8735
- APL1W07
CPU
- Total Cores
- 8
- 6
- Core Configuration
- 1x 3.2 GHz - Cortex-X4
3x 3.01 GHz - Cortex-A720
2x 2.80 GHz - Cortex-A720
2x 2.02 GHz - Cortex-A720 - 2x 3.23 GHz Avalanche (Performance)
4x 2.02 GHz Blizzard (Efficiency) - Max Frequency
- 3200 MHz
- 3230 MHz
- Instruction Set
- ARMv9.2-A
- ARMv8.5-A
- Process Node
- 4 nm
- 5 nm
- Manufacturing
- TSMC
- TSMC
- L2 Cache
- 6 MB
- 12 MB
- L3 Cache
- 8 MB
- 32 MB
- TDP
- -
- 6 W
GPU
- GPU Name
- Adreno 825
- Apple A15 GPU
- GPU Frequency
- 1150 MHz
- 1338 MHz
- Shading Units
- 512
- 128
- FLOPS
- 2355 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 4.1
- NVMe
Camera & Display
- Camera Support
- 320 MP
- 12 MP
- Video Capture
- 4K at 60 FPS
- 4K at 60 FPS
- Max Display Resolution
- WQHD+
- 2732 x 2048
- Video Playback
- 8K at 60 FPS
- 4K at 60 FPS
- Video Codecs
- H.264, H.265, AV1, 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
- 4.2 Gbps
- 7.5 Gbps
- Upload Speed
- 3.5 Gbps
- 3.0 Gbps
- Wi-Fi
- 7
- 6
- Bluetooth
- 6.0
- 5.0
- Navigation
- QZSS, Galileo, Beidou, GLONASS, NavIC, GPS, GNSS
- 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
- 23,14,089
- 12,00,314
- CPU
- 6,98,018
- 2,88,667
- GPU
- 7,98,999
- 3,95,574
- Memory
- 3,16,914
- 1,41,170
- UX
- 5,00,158
- 3,74,903
Geekbench
- Single-Core
- 2,073
- 2,372
- Multi-Core
- 6,511
- 5,457
Overall Score
Each category scored out of 100.
Total Score
+38 pointsCPU Score
+15 pointsGPU Score
+19 pointsMemory Score
+38 pointsMore Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 and Apple A15 Bionic comparisons
Each chip against rivals with a similar overall score.
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