Apple A12 Bionic vs Samsung Exynos 1280

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2400MHz Samsung Exynos 1280 . 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 0.487 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 17GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 2400MHz)

Samsung Exynos 1280 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A12 Bionic +33%

643548

Samsung Exynos 1280

481288

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A12 Bionic +52%

1301

Samsung Exynos 1280

852

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A12 Bionic +47%

2843

Samsung Exynos 1280

1927

FP32 (float)

Apple A12 Bionic +18%

576

Samsung Exynos 1280

487

Apple A12 Bionic

VS

Samsung Exynos 1280

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2490 MHz

Frequency

2400 MHz

6

Cores

8

8 MB

L2 cache

-

7 nm

Process

5 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G68 MP4

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

1000 MHz

4

Execution units

4

64

Shading units

48

4

Max size

8

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.487 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

17 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.2

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP

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, 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. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2550 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1840 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Mar 2022

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1W81

Model number

S5E8825

-

Official page

Samsung Exynos 1280

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