Apple A10 Fusion vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 670. 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 670
• Predecessor
  Apple A9 --
• Successor
  Apple A11 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 1.70 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 8
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.34 GHz 2.00 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 8
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• A core
  2x Hurricane 2x Kryo 360 Gold
• B core
  2x Zephyr 6x Kryo 360 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 A10 Qualcomm Adreno 615
• GPU frequency
  0.90 GHz 0.70 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 0.70 GHz
• Execution units
  6 0
• Shader
  192 256
• Max. GPU Memory
  4 GB --
• Max. displays
  1 0
• Generation
  7 6
• DirectX Version
  12.1
• Technology
  16 nm 10 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2016 Q2/2018

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 and Apple A10 Fusion. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR4-3200 LPDDR4X-1866
• Max. Memory
  3 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  1 2

• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Apple A10 Fusion and Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  5 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Apple A10 Fusion and Apple A10 Fusion, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None None
• L2-Cache
  4.00 MB --
• Architecture
  A10 Kryo 360
• Technology
  10 nm 10 nm
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q3/2016 Q3/2018
• Part Number
  -- SDM670