Apple A12 Bionic vs Samsung Exynos 1080

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2800MHz Samsung Exynos 1080 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A12 Bionic Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 9W)

Samsung Exynos 1080 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.024 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (2800MHz vs 2490MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A12 Bionic +58%

1301

Samsung Exynos 1080

822

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A12 Bionic

2843

Samsung Exynos 1080 +4%

2980

FP32 (float)

Apple A12 Bionic

576

Samsung Exynos 1080 +77%

1024

Apple A12 Bionic

VS

Samsung Exynos 1080

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A78
3x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2490 MHz

Frequency

2800 MHz

6

Cores

8

8 MB

L2 cache

-

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

5 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G78 MP10

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

800 MHz

4

Execution units

10

64

Shading units

64

4

Max size

8

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.024 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

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

Neural Processor

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Processor

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.1

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP, 2x 32MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

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

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7350 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3670 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Nov 2020

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1W81

Model number

S5E9815

-

Official page

Samsung Exynos 1080

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