Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

VS

Apple A12 Bionic

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A12 Bionic Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 6.3W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (3.4816 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (64GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3200MHz vs 2490MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A12 Bionic

643548

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +138%

1534534

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A12 Bionic

1301

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +54%

2004

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A12 Bionic

2843

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +87%

5344

FP32 (float)

Apple A12 Bionic

576

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +504%

3481

Apple A12 Bionic

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X3
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A710
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510

2490 MHz

Frequency

3200 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8.3-A

Instruction set

ARMv9-A

8 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

4 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

6.3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 740

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

680 MHz

4

Execution units

2

64

Shading units

1280

4

Max size

24

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

3.4816 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

4200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

64 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, 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 X70

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

7

5.0

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Nov 2022

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W81

Model number

SM8550-AB

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

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