Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

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Apple A12 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2630MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 . 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 25.6GB/s)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2630MHz vs 2490MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A12 Bionic

643548

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 +34%

866863

Apple A12 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.63 GHz – Cortex-A715
3x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A715
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510

2490 MHz

Frequency

2630 MHz

6

Cores

8

8 MB

L2 cache

-

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

4 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 720

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

-

4

Execution units

-

64

Shading units

-

4

Max size

16

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

25.6 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

3360 x 1600

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS, 1K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS, 1080p at 120FPS

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

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Intel XMM 7560

Modem

Snapdragon X63

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 22

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 5000 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1600 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Nov 2023

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1W81

Model number

SM7550-AB

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

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