Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

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Apple A12 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 . 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 0.1248 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 7.5GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 11W)

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A12 Bionic +522%

1301

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

209

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A12 Bionic +210%

2843

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

916

Apple A12 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

CPU

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

Architecture

8x 2.2 GHz – A53

2490 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

6

Cores

8

8 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

7 nm

Process

14 nm

6.9

Transistor count

2

6 W

TDP

11 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 506

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

4

Execution units

1

64

Shading units

96

4

Max size

8

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1248 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR3

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

7.5 GB/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon 546

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 546

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP

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

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

Audio codecs

AIFF

Intel XMM 7560

Modem

X9

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

No

5G support

No

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Oct 2016

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1W81

Model number

MSM8953 Pro

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

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