Apple A11 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral
1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X43x 3 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.02 GHz – Cortex-A720
Frequency
2390 MHz
3200 MHz
Cores
6
8
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache
64 KB
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L2 cache
0
2.75 MB
Process
10 nm
4 nm
Transistor count
4.3
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TDP
8 W
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Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L3 cache
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8 MB
Graphics
GPU name
Apple A11 GPU
Adreno 825
GPU frequency
1066 MHz
1150 MHz
Execution units
3
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Shading units
64
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Vulkan version
1.0
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OpenCL version
2.1
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DirectX version
12
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Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR4X
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4800 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
76.8 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Apple M10
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Storage type
NVMe
UFS 4.0
Max display resolution
2436 x 1125
3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
1x 320MP
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 12
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5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
Up to 4200 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
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Wi-Fi
5
7
Bluetooth
5.0
6.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Announced
Sep 2017
Apr 2025
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
APL1W72
SM8735
AI
NPU
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Hexagon
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
409,550
2,186,467
Geekbench 6
1,097
2,159
Geekbench 6
2,357
7,227
FP32 (float)
409
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.