Snapdragon 855 vs A11 Bionic
We compared the 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 (Adreno 640) 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 855
- Performs 2.8x better in floating-point computations
- Has a smaller size transistor (7 versus 10 nm)
- Announced 1-year and 3-months later
- Has 2 more cores
- Shows better (up to 30%) AnTuTu 9 score – 517K vs 397K
- 19% higher CPU clock speed (2840 vs 2390 MHz)
- Better instruction set architecture
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| CPU | 141555 | 126597 |
| GPU | 184296 | 122199 |
| Memory | 62560 | 65581 |
| UX | 131223 | 84287 |
| Total score | 517151 | 397402 |
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 | 153.4 Mpixels/s | 122.9 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | 21 images/s | 21.6 images/s |
| Speech recognition | 45.7 words/s | 35.8 words/s |
| Machine learning | 48 images/s | 39.5 images/s |
| Camera shooting | 26.2 images/s | 21 images/s |
| HTML 5 | 1.44 Mnodes/s | 3.15 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | 846.9 Krows/s | 767.9 Krows/s |
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | 88% | 71% |
| Graphics test | 18 FPS | 20 FPS |
| Score | 3016 | 3422 |
Gaming
| PUBG Mobile | 58 FPS [Ultra] |
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| Call of Duty: Mobile | 56 FPS [Ultra] |
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| Fortnite | 28 FPS [Ultra] |
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| Shadowgun Legends | 51 FPS [Ultra] |
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| World of Tanks Blitz | 59 FPS [Ultra] |
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| Mobile Legends: Bang Bang | 57 FPS [Ultra] |
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| Device | Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro 1080 x 2340 |
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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 855 and A11 BionicCPU
| Architecture | 1x 2.84 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 2.39 GHz – Monsoon 4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral |
| Cores | 8 | 6 |
| Frequency | 2840 MHz | 2390 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8.2-A | ARMv8-A |
| L1 cache | 512 KB | 64 KB |
| L2 cache | 1 MB | 8 MB |
| L3 cache | 2 MB | - |
| Process | 7 nanometers | 10 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 6.7 billion | 4.3 billion |
| TDP | 6 W | 8 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Adreno 640 | Apple GPU |
| Architecture | Adreno 600 | - |
| GPU frequency | 585 MHz | - |
| Execution units | 2 | 3 |
| Shading units | 384 | - |
| FLOPS | 899 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 | 2133 MHz | 2133 MHz |
| Bus | 4x 16 Bit | 4x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 34.13 Gbit/s | 34.1 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 16 GB | 4 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Hexagon 690 | Apple M10 |
| Storage type | UFS 3.0 | NVMe |
| Max display resolution | 3840 x 2160 | 2436 x 1125 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP | 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP |
| 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 |
Connectivity
| Modem | X24 LTE, X50 5G | - |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 20 | LTE Cat. 12 |
| 5G support | Yes | No |
| Download speed | Up to 5000 Mbps | Up to 600 Mbps |
| Upload speed | Up to 1240 Mbps | Up to 150 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 5.0 | 5.0 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo |
Info
| Announced | December 2018 | September 2017 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | SM8150 | APL1W72 |
| Official page | Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 official site | - |
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