Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

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Apple A12 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 3000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (3.3792 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (3000MHz vs 2490MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)

Released 5 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A12 Bionic

643548

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 +141%

1554839

FP32 (float)

Apple A12 Bionic

576

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 +486%

3379

Apple A12 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520

2490 MHz

Frequency

3000 MHz

6

Cores

8

8 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

4 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 735

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

1100 MHz

4

Execution units

2

64

Shading units

768

4

Max size

24

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

3.3792 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

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 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. 22

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 6500 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

7

5.0

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Mar 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W81

Model number

SM8635

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Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

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