Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

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Apple A12 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 4 cores 1400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A12 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.576 TFLOPS vs 0.024 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 5.34GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 1400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 28nm)

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A12 Bionic +371%

643548

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

136588

FP32 (float)

Apple A12 Bionic +2300%

576

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

24

Apple A12 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

CPU

2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest

Architecture

4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

2490 MHz

Frequency

1400 MHz

6

Cores

4

8 MB

L2 cache

-

7 nm

Process

28 nm

6.9

Transistor count

1

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 308

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

500 MHz

4

Execution units

1

64

Shading units

24

4

Max size

4

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.024 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR3

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

667 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

5.34 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon 536

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 536

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

1280 x 800

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Intel XMM 7560

Modem

X6

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 5

No

5G support

No

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 75 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Feb 2016

Flagship

Class

Low end

APL1W81

Model number

MSM8917

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

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