Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

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Apple A12 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A12 Bionic Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 22GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 2200MHz)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)

Released 4 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A12 Bionic +10%

643548

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

582743

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A12 Bionic +37%

1301

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

946

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A12 Bionic +3%

2843

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

2750

Apple A12 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

2490 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

6

Cores

8

8 MB

L2 cache

-

7 nm

Process

4 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 710

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

-

4

Execution units

-

64

Shading units

-

4

Max size

8

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2750 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

22 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.2

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Intel XMM 7560

Modem

X62

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2900 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1600 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Sep 2022

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1W81

Model number

SM6450

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

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