Snapdragon 855 Plus vs A13 Bionic
We compared the 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus (Adreno 640) with the newer 6-core Apple A13 Bionic (Apple A13 Bionic 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 855 Plus
- Performs 41% better in floating-point computations
- Has 2 more cores
- 11% higher CPU clock speed (2960 vs 2660 MHz)
Pros of Apple A13 Bionic
- Shows better (up to 12%) AnTuTu 9 score – 612K vs 544K
- Better instruction set architecture
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| CPU | 149882 | 144483 |
| GPU | 197496 | 262635 |
| Memory | 84478 | 96216 |
| UX | 114310 | 119762 |
| Total score | 544808 | 612423 |
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 | 133.6 Mpixels/s | 151.6 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | 22.55 images/s | 29.65 images/s |
| Speech recognition | 40.85 words/s | 87.4 words/s |
| Machine learning | 43.9 images/s | 72.5 images/s |
| Camera shooting | 23.1 images/s | 33.75 images/s |
| HTML 5 | 2.95 Mnodes/s | 3.81 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | 743.3 Krows/s | 901.1 Krows/s |
Gaming
| PUBG Mobile | 39 FPS [Ultra] |
57 FPS [Ultra] |
| Call of Duty: Mobile | 58 FPS [Ultra] |
60 FPS [Ultra] |
| Fortnite | 29 FPS [Medium] |
60 FPS [High] |
| Shadowgun Legends | 53 FPS [Ultra] |
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| World of Tanks Blitz | 60 FPS [Ultra] |
60 FPS [Ultra] |
| Genshin Impact | 39 FPS [Ultra] |
59 FPS [Ultra] |
| Mobile Legends: Bang Bang | 58 FPS [Ultra] |
60 FPS [Ultra] |
| Device | Realme X3 Superzoom 1080 x 2400 |
Apple iPhone 11 Pro 828 x 1792 |
We provide average results. FPS may differ, depending on game version, OS and other factors.
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Snapdragon 855 Plus and A13 BionicCPU
| Architecture | 1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold) 3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold) 4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver) |
2x 2.66 GHz – Lightning 4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder |
| Cores | 8 | 6 |
| Frequency | 2960 MHz | 2660 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8.1-A | ARMv8.3-A |
| L1 cache | 512 KB | 48 KB |
| L2 cache | 1 MB | 4 MB |
| L3 cache | 2 MB | - |
| Process | 7 nanometers | 7 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 6.7 billion | 8.5 billion |
| TDP | 10 W | 6 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Adreno 640 | Apple A13 Bionic GPU |
| Architecture | Adreno 600 | - |
| GPU frequency | 627 MHz | - |
| Execution units | 2 | 4 |
| Shading units | 384 | - |
| FLOPS | 1036 Gigaflops | 736 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.1 | 1.1 |
| OpenCL version | 2.0 | 2.1 |
| DirectX version | 12 | 12.1 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR4X |
| Memory frequency | 2133 MHz | - |
| Bus | 4x 16 Bit | 2x 32 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 34.1 Gbit/s | - |
| Max size | 16 GB | - |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Hexagon 690 | Yes, Neural Engine |
| Storage type | UFS 3.0 | NVMe |
| Max display resolution | 3840 x 2160 | 2688 x 1242 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP | - |
| Video capture | 4K at 120FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video playback | 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 | H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG |
| Audio codecs | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ |
Connectivity
| Modem | X24 LTE, X50 5G | - |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 20 | LTE Cat. 18 |
| 5G support | Yes | No |
| Download speed | Up to 2000 Mbps | Up to 1200 Mbps |
| Upload speed | Up to 316 Mbps | Up to 220 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 6 |
| Bluetooth | 5.0 | 5.0 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS | GPS, GLONASS, Galileo |
Info
| Announced | July 2019 | September 2019 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | SM8150-AC | - |
| Official page | Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus official site | - |
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