Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

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Apple A12 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.3721 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3200MHz vs 2490MHz)

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A12 Bionic

643548

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 +25%

810488

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A12 Bionic +13%

1301

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

1151

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A12 Bionic

2843

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 +17%

3336

FP32 (float)

Apple A12 Bionic

576

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 +138%

1372

Apple A12 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 3.2 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55)

2490 MHz

Frequency

3200 MHz

6

Cores

8

8 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

7 nm

6.9

Transistor count

10.3

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 650

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

670 MHz

4

Execution units

2

64

Shading units

512

4

Max size

16

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.3721 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2750 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon 698

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 698

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP, 2x 25MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 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

X55

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 22

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3000 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

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

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Jan 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W81

Model number

SM8250-AC

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Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

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