Apple A10 Fusion vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
2x 2.34 GHz – Hurricane2x 1.05 GHz – Zephyr
1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X43x 3 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.02 GHz – Cortex-A720
Frequency
2340 MHz
3200 MHz
Cores
4
8
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache
64 KB
-
L2 cache
0
2.75 MB
L3 cache
0
8 MB
Process
16 nm
4 nm
Transistor count
3.3
-
TDP
5 W
-
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC

Graphics

GPU name
PowerVR GT7600
Adreno 825
GPU frequency
650 MHz
1150 MHz
Execution units
6
-
Shading units
32
-
Vulkan version
1.1
-
OpenCL version
1.2
-
DirectX version
12
-

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR4
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
1333 MHz
4800 MHz
Bus
2x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
14.9 Gbit/s
76.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)
Apple M10
-
Storage type
NVMe
UFS 4.0
Max display resolution
2048 x 1536
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, VC-1, 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
-
5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
Up to 4200 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 100 Mbps
-
Wi-Fi
5
7
Bluetooth
4.2
6.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Announced
Sep 2016
Apr 2025
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
APL1W24
SM8735
Official page
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AI

NPU
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Hexagon

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
347,439
2,186,467
FP32 (float)
249
-
Geekbench 6
-
2,159
Geekbench 6
-
7,227