Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus vs Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU). 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 855/860 Apple A15
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  6 15
• Successor
  Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 --

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.

• CPU Cores / Threads
  8 / 8 6 / 6
• Core architecture
  hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• A-Core
  1x Kryo 485 Prime 2x Avalanche
• B-Core
  3x Kryo 485 Gold 4x Blizzard
• C-Core
  4x Kryo 485 Silver --
• 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
  Qualcomm Adreno 640 Apple A15 (4 GPU Cores)
• GPU frequency
  0.25 GHz 0.60 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.68 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  4 128
• Shader
  384 1024
• Max. GPU Memory
  4 GB 8 GB
• Max. displays
  1 3
• Generation
  5 12
• Direct X
  12.0 --
• Technology
  7 nm 5 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2019 Q3/2021

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) and Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR4X-4266 LPDDR4X-4266
• Max. Memory
  16 GB 8 GB
• Memory channels
  4 1
• ECC
  No No
• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus and Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) 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 855 Plus and Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• L2-Cache
  2.00 MB 16.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  3.00 MB --
• Architecture
  Kryo 485 A15
• Technology
  7 nm 5 nm
• Virtualization
  None None
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q4/2018 Q3/2021
• Part Number
  SM8150-AC --