Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

VS

Apple A12 Bionic

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 . 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 0.2432 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 17GB/s)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2800MHz vs 2490MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 7nm)

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A12 Bionic +81%

643548

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

354293

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A12 Bionic +173%

1301

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

475

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A12 Bionic +87%

2843

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

1517

FP32 (float)

Apple A12 Bionic +137%

576

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

243

Apple A12 Bionic

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53

2490 MHz

Frequency

2800 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8.3-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

8 MB

L2 cache

-

7 nm

Process

6 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 610

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

950 MHz

4

Execution units

1

64

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2432 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

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

17 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 686

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.2

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP, 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

5

5.0

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Mar 2023

Flagship

Class

Low end

APL1W81

Model number

SM6225-AD

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

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