Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 5
vs
Apple A11 Bionic
vs
SoC Comparison Result
Below are the results of a comparison of
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 5
and
Apple A11 Bionic
mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.
Advantages
- Higher Technology: 3 nm (3 nm vs 10 nm)
- Higher Frequency: 3800 MHz (3800 MHz vs 2390 MHz)
- Newer Launch Date: November 2025 (November 2025 vs September 2017)
Basic
Qualcomm
Label Name
Apple
November 2025
Launch Date
September 2017
SmartPhone Flagship
Platform
SmartPhone Flagship
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
SM8845
Model Name
APL1W72
2x 3.8 GHz, 6x 3.32 GHz
Architecture
2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon
4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral
4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral
8
Cores
6
3 nm
Technology
10 nm
3800 MHz
Frequency
2390 MHz
-
Transistor count
4.3
GPU Specifications
Adreno 840
GPU name
Apple A11 GPU
1200 MHz
GPU frequency
1066 MHz
-
FLOPS
0.4093 TFLOPS
512
Shading units
64
-
Execution units
3
3.0
OpenCL version
2.1
1.4
Vulkan version
1.0
3840 x 2540
Max display resolution
2436 x 1125
12.1
DirectX version
12
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 12
Yes
5G support
No
6.0
Bluetooth
5.0
7
Wi-Fi
5
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Memory Specifications
LPDDR5X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
4800 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Memory Bus
4x 16 Bit
Miscellaneous
Hexagon
Neural processor (NPU)
Apple M10
-
L2 Cache
8 MB
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
1x 320MP
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
Storage type
NVMe
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
-
TDP
8 W
ARMv9.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
Benchmarks
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Snapdragon 8 Gen 5
2804
+156%
A11 Bionic
1097
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Snapdragon 8 Gen 5
10057
+327%
A11 Bionic
2357
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