Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 460

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Apple A12 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 460

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 460 . 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 0.1536 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 13.91GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 1800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 11nm)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 460 Advantages

Lower TDP (3W vs 6W)

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A12 Bionic +228%

643548

Qualcomm Snapdragon 460

195931

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A12 Bionic +378%

1301

Qualcomm Snapdragon 460

272

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A12 Bionic +184%

2843

Qualcomm Snapdragon 460

999

FP32 (float)

Apple A12 Bionic +276%

576

Qualcomm Snapdragon 460

153

Apple A12 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 460

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 240 Gold
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 240 Silver

2490 MHz

Frequency

1800 MHz

6

Cores

8

8 MB

L2 cache

-

7 nm

Process

11 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 610

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

4

Execution units

1

64

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1536 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

13.91 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon 683

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 683

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.1

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

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

X11

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

No

5G support

No

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 390 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Jan 2020

Flagship

Class

Low end

APL1W81

Model number

SM4250-AA

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 460

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