Apple A10X Fusion vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 855. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  Apple A series Qualcomm Snapdragon
• Generation
  10 6
• CPU group
  Apple A10/A10X Qualcomm Snapdragon 855/860
• Predecessor
  Apple A9X --
• Successor
  Apple A12Z Bionic --

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  1.30 GHz 1.80 GHz
• CPU Cores
  6 8
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.38 GHz 2.84 GHz
• CPU Threads
  6 8
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)
• A core
  3x Hurricane 1x Kryo 485 Prime
• B core
  3x Zephyr 3x Kryo 485 Gold
• C core
  -- 4x Kryo 485 Silver

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  Apple A10X Qualcomm Adreno 640
• GPU frequency
  0.90 GHz 0.25 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 0.59 GHz
• Execution units
  12 4
• Shader
  384 384
• Max. GPU Memory
  4 GB 4 GB
• Max. displays
  1 1
• Generation
  7 5
• DirectX Version
  12.0
• Technology
  10 nm 7 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2017 Q1/2019

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 and Apple A10X Fusion. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR4-3200 LPDDR4X-4266
• Max. Memory
  3 GB 16 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 4

• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Apple A10X Fusion and Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  8 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Apple A10X Fusion and Apple A10X Fusion, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None None
• L2-Cache
  8.00 MB 2.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  -- 3.00 MB
• Architecture
  A10 Kryo 485
• Technology
  10 nm 7 nm
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q2/2017 Q4/2018
• Part Number
  -- SM8150