Comparison of Apple A7 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

Attribute	Apple A7 ×	Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 ×
General Information
Brand	Apple	Qualcomm
Series	Apple A series	Qualcomm Snapdragon
Model	Apple A7	Qualcomm Snapdragon 435
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	2	8
Frequency (GHz)	1.3	1.4
CPU Threads	2	8
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	-	-
Overclocking	-	-
A core	2x Cyclone	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	1.4	1.4
Turbo (2 Cores) (GHz)	1.4	-
Turbo (8 Cores) (GHz)	-	1.4
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	No	Decode / Encode
h264	No	Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No	Decode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	No
VP8	No	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	No	Decode
VP9	No	No
AVC	No	No
Internal Graphics
GPU name	PowerVR G6430	Qualcomm Adreno 505
GPU frequency (GHz)	0.45	0.45
GPU (Turbo) (GHz)	0.45	0.45
Generation	-	5
DirectX Version	10	11
Execution units	4	0
Shader	64	48
Max. displays	1	0
GPU Release date (year)	2013	2015
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	LPDDR3-1333	LPDDR3-800
Max. Memory (GB)	1	-
ECC	-	-
Memory channels	1	1
Technical details
Release date (year)	2013	2016
Technology (Nm)	28	28
Virtualization	none	none
L3-Cache (MB)	4	-
L2-Cache (MB)	1	-
Architecture	A7	ARM Cortex-A53
Instruction set (ISA)	ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)	ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
Benchmarks
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)	115	22
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	278	120
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	528	420