Snapdragon 720G vs A11 Bionic
We compared the 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G (Adreno 618) with the older 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 720G
- Announced 2-years and 5-months later
- Has 2 more cores
- Has a smaller size transistor (8 versus 10 nm)
- Performs 18% better in floating-point computations
- Better instruction set architecture
Pros of Apple A11 Bionic
- Supports 129% higher memory bandwidth (34.1 against 14.9 GB/s)
- Shows better (up to 18%) AnTuTu 9 score – 398K vs 337K
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| CPU | 104527 | 126597 |
| GPU | 89136 | 122199 |
| Memory | 49885 | 65581 |
| UX | 96992 | 84287 |
| Total score | 337910 | 398270 |
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 | 110.2 Mpixels/s | 122.9 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | 13.1 images/s | 21.6 images/s |
| Speech recognition | 27.3 words/s | 35.8 words/s |
| Machine learning | 26.1 images/s | 39.5 images/s |
| Camera shooting | 15.7 images/s | 21 images/s |
| HTML 5 | 2.16 Mnodes/s | 3.15 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | 533.6 Krows/s | 767.9 Krows/s |
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | 99% | 62% |
| Graphics test | 6 FPS | 18 FPS |
| Score | 1043 | 3146 |
Gaming
| PUBG Mobile | 43 FPS [High] |
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| Call of Duty: Mobile | 40 FPS [Ultra] |
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| Fortnite | 28 FPS [Low] |
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| World of Tanks Blitz | 51 FPS [Ultra] |
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| Genshin Impact | 34 FPS [Medium] |
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| Mobile Legends: Bang Bang | 30 FPS [High] |
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| Device | Realme 7 Pro 1080 x 2400 |
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We provide average results. FPS may differ, depending on game version, OS and other factors.
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Snapdragon 720G and A11 BionicCPU
| Architecture | 2x 2.3 GHz – Kryo 465 Gold (Cortex-A76) 6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 465 Silver (Cortex-A55) |
2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon 4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral |
| Cores | 8 | 6 |
| Frequency | 2300 MHz | 2390 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8.2-A | ARMv8-A |
| L1 cache | - | 64 KB |
| L2 cache | - | 8 MB |
| Process | 8 nanometers | 10 nanometers |
| Transistor count | - | 4.3 billion |
| TDP | 5 W | 8 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Adreno 618 | Apple GPU |
| Architecture | Adreno 600 | - |
| GPU frequency | 750 MHz | - |
| Execution units | 2 | 3 |
| Shading units | 128 | - |
| FLOPS | 384 Gigaflops | 325 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.1 | 1.0 |
| OpenCL version | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | 12 | 12 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR4X |
| Memory frequency | 1866 MHz | 2133 MHz |
| Bus | 2x 16 Bit | 4x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 14.9 Gbit/s | 34.1 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 8 GB | 4 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Qualcomm Hexagon 692 | Apple M10 |
| Storage type | UFS 2.1 | NVMe |
| Max display resolution | 2520 x 1080 | 2436 x 1125 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP | 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 30FPS, 1080p at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 | H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG |
| Audio codecs | 384 kHz/32 bit | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Connectivity
| Modem | X15 | - |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 15 | LTE Cat. 12 |
| 5G support | No | No |
| Download speed | Up to 800 Mbps | Up to 600 Mbps |
| Upload speed | Up to 150 Mbps | Up to 150 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 5.1 | 5.0 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo |
Info
| Announced | January 2020 | September 2017 |
| Class | Mid range | Flagship |
| Model number | SM7125 | APL1W72 |
| Official page | Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G official site | - |
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