Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

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Apple A12 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2840MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.8985 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.13GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2840MHz vs 2490MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A12 Bionic +8%

643548

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

592031

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A12 Bionic +38%

1301

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

939

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A12 Bionic

2843

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

2855

FP32 (float)

Apple A12 Bionic

576

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 +55%

898

Apple A12 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.84 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)

2490 MHz

Frequency

2840 MHz

6

Cores

8

8 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

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L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

7 nm

6.9

Transistor count

6.7

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 640

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

585 MHz

4

Execution units

2

64

Shading units

384

4

Max size

16

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.8985 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

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.13 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon 690

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 690

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.0

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP, 2x 22MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

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, 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

X24 LTE, X50 5G

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 20

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 5000 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1240 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

Dec 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W81

Model number

SM8150

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Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

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