Apple A11 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (97/100)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 leads overall with a score of 97/100 compared to Apple A11 Bionic (35/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5:
  • + Higher DeviceBenchmark Score score (97 vs 35)
  • + Higher Performance score (99 vs 31)
Apple A11 Bionic
Apple

Apple A11 Bionic

35/100
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[ WINNER ]
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Qualcomm

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

97/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple A11 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
DeviceBenchmark Score 35.0 Poor 97.0 Excellent WINNER
Performance 31.0 Poor 99.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Graphics test 5 FPS 20 FPS
Stability 59% 67%
Section 1 — 52 FPS
Section 2 — 46 FPS
Section 3 — 40 FPS

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine Hexagon

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
CPU 254993 1112833
GPU 116883 1494722
Memory 96795 442350
Total score 626912 3950082
UX 158241 900177

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Architecture 2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral 2x 4.61 GHz – Oryon Gen 3 Prime6x 3.63 GHz – Oryon Gen 3 Performance
Cores 6 8
Frequency 2390 MHz 4610 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 64 KB 192 KB
L2 cache 8 MB 12 MB
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Process 10 nanometers 3 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 8 W —
Transistor count 4.3 billion —
L3 cache — 12 MB

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
4G support LTE Cat. 12 LTE Cat. 24
5G support No Yes
Bluetooth 5.0 6.0
Download speed Up to 600 Mbps Up to 12500 Mbps
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Upload speed Up to 150 Mbps Up to 3700 Mbps
Wi-Fi 5 7
Modem — Snapdragon X85

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
API Metal Vulkan
Asset compression 113.5 MB/sec 421.8 MB/sec
Background blur 10.1 images/sec 40.7 images/sec
Edge detection 0.25 Gpixels/sec 1 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 11.3 images/sec 24.9 images/sec
Feature matching 0.07 Gpixels/sec 0.36 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 0.62 Gpixels/sec 2.04 Gpixels/sec
HDR 83.6 Mpixels/sec 308.4 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 58.7 pages/sec 238 pages/sec
Horizon detection 0.23 Gpixels/sec 0.72 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 23.6 images/sec 330.6 images/sec
PDF Renderer 82.1 Mpixels/sec 286.6 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 324.3 FPS 4390.2 FPS
Photo processing 29.8 images/sec 98.7 images/sec
Ray tracing 3.32 Mpixels/sec 14.1 Mpixels/sec
Samples 6 tests 79 tests
Stereo matching 12.1 Gpixels/sec 115.4 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
FLOPS 409.3 Gigaflops 3686.4 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1066 MHz 1200 MHz
Pipelines 3 3
Shading units 64 512
Total shaders 192 1536
DirectX version — 12.1
OpenCL version — 3.0
Vulkan version — 1.4

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Announced September 2017 September 2025
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number APL1W72 SM8850-AC
Successor -Apple A19 Pro —
Official page — Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 official site

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 34.1 Gb/s 84.8 Gb/s
Max size 4 GB 24 GB
Memory frequency 2133 MHz 5300 MHz
Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max camera resolution 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP 1x 320MP
Max display resolution 2436 x 1125 3840 x 2540
Storage type NVMe UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- Motion JPEG - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2024-08-21(I desperately need a new phone) GeekBench CPU —
📘 2026-01-08->Tangerine GeekBench CPU —
📘 2026-05-13(TestGame) GeekBench GPU —
📘 2026-06-03(alwayssonqz) GeekBench GPU —
📘 2026-08-19->2295031556Leon — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-21(Ilya) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-24(q_l8) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-24->Ang3L4D — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-25(Edwin3q) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-25(Hüseyn Alizade) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-25(erosado-pr) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-25(freqr) — AnTuTu

Smartphones

Smartphones specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
1.Apple iPhone X 644307 —
2.Apple iPhone 8 Plus 620370 —
3.Apple iPhone 8 520567 —
Phones with A11 Bionic AnTuTu v11 —
1.ZTE Nubia Red Magic 11S Pro Plus — 4716234
10.Honor Magic 8 — 4037547
2.ZTE Nubia Red Magic 11S Pro — 4678468
3.Vivo iQOO 15 Ultra — 4602290
4.Vivo X300 Ultra — 4247433
5.ZTE Nubia Red Magic 11 Pro Plus — 4244509
6.Oppo Find X9 Ultra — 4231988
7.Honor Robot Phone — 4166339
8.Honor Magic V6 — 4166339
9.ZTE Nubia Red Magic 11 Pro — 4117238
Phones with Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 — AnTuTu v11

PCMark 3.0

PCMark 3.0 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Data manipulation score — 15949
Phones tested — 13 models
Photo editing score — 40273
Video editing score — 8052
Web score — 16855
Writing score — 26073

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