Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4

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Apple A12 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 4000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 Advantages

Higher Frequency (4000MHz vs 2490MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)

Released 6 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A12 Bionic

643548

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 +386%

3133570

Apple A12 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 4 GHz – Cortex-X5
6x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A730

2490 MHz

Frequency

4000 MHz

6

Cores

8

8 MB

L2 cache

-

7 nm

Process

3 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 760

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

-

4

Execution units

-

64

Shading units

-

4

Max size

24

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR6

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

-

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

NVMe

Storage type

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 30FPS, 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

-

Intel XMM 7560

Modem

Snapdragon X80

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

-

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

-

5

Wi-Fi

7

5.0

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Oct 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W81

Model number

-

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