Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 730

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Apple A12 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 730

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 . 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 0.3584 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 8nm)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Released 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A12 Bionic +75%

643548

Qualcomm Snapdragon 730

367428

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A12 Bionic +86%

1301

Qualcomm Snapdragon 730

698

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A12 Bionic +72%

2843

Qualcomm Snapdragon 730

1645

FP32 (float)

Apple A12 Bionic +60%

576

Qualcomm Snapdragon 730

358

Apple A12 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 730

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 470 Gold (Cortex-A76)
6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 470 Silver (Cortex-A55)

2490 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

6

Cores

8

8 MB

L2 cache

-

7 nm

Process

8 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 618

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

700 MHz

4

Execution units

2

64

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3584 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

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Qualcomm Hexagon 688

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Qualcomm Hexagon 688

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.0

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP, 2x 22MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K 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

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Intel XMM 7560

Modem

X15

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 15

No

5G support

No

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 800 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Apr 2019

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1W81

Model number

SM7150-AA

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 730

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