Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 vs Apple A15 Bionic. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Qualcomm Snapdragon Apple A series
• CPU group
  Qualcomm Snapdragon 7/8 Gen 1 Apple A15
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  1 15
• Predecessor
  -- Apple A14 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.

• Core architecture
  hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• Overclocking
  No No

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
  no iGPU Apple A15 (5 GPU Cores)
• GPU frequency
  1.80 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 3.20 GHz
• Execution units
  5
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 8 GB
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  12
• Technology
  5 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2021

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple A15 Bionic and Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR5-6400 LPDDR4X-4266
• Max. Memory
  16 GB 8 GB
• Memory channels
  4 2
• ECC
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 and Apple A15 Bionic to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  8.5 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv9-A64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• L2-Cache
  2.00 MB 4.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB --
• Architecture
  Cortex-X2 / -A710 / -A510 A15
• Technology
  4 nm 5 nm
• Virtualization
  None None
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q2/2022 Q3/2021
• Part Number
  SM8475 --