Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

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Apple A12 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 4 cores 2500MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 . 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 0.148 TFLOPS )

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

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 28nm)

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2490MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A12 Bionic +410%

643548

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

126118

FP32 (float)

Apple A12 Bionic +289%

576

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

148

Apple A12 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.5 GHz – Krait

2490 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

6

Cores

4

8 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

7 nm

Process

28 nm

6.9

Transistor count

1

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 330

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

578 MHz

4

Execution units

1

64

Shading units

128

4

Max size

4

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.148 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR3

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

No

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.0

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

2560 x 2048

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

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

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 5

No

5G support

No

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Feb 2014

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W81

Model number

MSM8974 v3

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Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

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