Snapdragon 660 vs A11 Bionic
We compared the 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 (Adreno 512) with the newer 6-core Apple A11 Bionic (Apple GPU) SoC. Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
NanoReview Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 660
- Has 2 more cores
Pros of Apple A11 Bionic
- Shows significantly better (up to 2x) AnTuTu 9 score – 403K vs 202K
- Performs 50% better in floating-point computations
- Has a smaller size transistor (10 versus 14 nm)
- 9% higher CPU clock speed (2390 vs 2200 MHz)
- Supports 7% higher memory bandwidth (14.9 against 13.9 GB/s)
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Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| CPU | 71329 | 124988 |
| GPU | 35131 | 147976 |
| Memory | 36052 | 61076 |
| UX | 59685 | 66430 |
| Total score | 202498 | 403463 |
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect NanoReview scores.
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | 89.4 Mpixels/s | 122.9 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | 12.7 images/s | 21.6 images/s |
| Speech recognition | 24.2 words/s | 35.8 words/s |
| Machine learning | 18.7 images/s | 39.5 images/s |
| Camera shooting | 11 images/s | 21 images/s |
| HTML 5 | 1.69 Mnodes/s | 3.15 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | 453.7 Krows/s | 767.9 Krows/s |
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | 96% | 62% |
| Graphics test | 2 FPS | 18 FPS |
| Score | 373 | 3162 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Snapdragon 660 and A11 BionicCPU
| Architecture | 4x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 260 Gold (Cortex-A73) 4x 1.84 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (Cortex-A53) |
2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon 4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral |
| Cores | 8 | 6 |
| Frequency | 2200 MHz | 2390 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8-A | ARMv8-A |
| L1 cache | - | 64 KB |
| L2 cache | 2 MB | 8 MB |
| Process | 14 nanometers | 10 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 1.75 billion | 4.3 billion |
| TDP | 9 W | 8 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Adreno 512 | Apple GPU |
| Architecture | Adreno 500 | - |
| GPU frequency | 850 MHz | - |
| Execution units | 1 | 3 |
| Shading units | 128 | - |
| FLOPS | 217 Gigaflops | 325 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.1 | 1.0 |
| OpenCL version | 2.0 | 2.1 |
| DirectX version | 12 | 12 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR4 |
| Memory frequency | 1866 MHz | 1866 MHz |
| Bus | 2x 16 Bit | 2x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 13.9 Gbit/s | 14.9 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 8 GB | 3 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Hexagon 680 | Neural Engine |
| Storage type | eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 | NVMe |
| Max display resolution | 2560 x 1600 | 2436 x 1125 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 48MP, 2x 16MP | 2x 12MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 30FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 30FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 | H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG |
| Audio codecs | AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Connectivity
| Modem | X12 | - |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 12 | LTE Cat. 12 |
| 5G support | No | No |
| Download speed | Up to 600 Mbps | Up to 600 Mbps |
| Upload speed | Up to 150 Mbps | Up to 150 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 5 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 5.0 | 5.0 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo |
Info
| Announced | May 2017 | September 2017 |
| Class | Mid range | Flagship |
| Model number | SM6115 | APL1W72 |
| Official page | Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 official site | - |
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