Apple A12 Bionic vs Samsung Exynos 2500

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 10 cores 3200MHz Samsung Exynos 2500 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Samsung Exynos 2500 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (76.8GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3200MHz vs 2490MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A12 Bionic

643548

Samsung Exynos 2500 +291%

2519784

Apple A12 Bionic

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Samsung Exynos 2500

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X5
3x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A730
2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A730
4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A520

2490 MHz

Frequency

3200 MHz

6

Cores

10

8 MB

L2 cache

-

7 nm

Process

3 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

-

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

-

4

Execution units

-

64

Shading units

-

4

Max size

24

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5T

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

76.8 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 4.0

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

-

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 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, AV1

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 350 Mbps

Upload speed

-

5

Wi-Fi

7

5.0

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

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

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Jan 2025

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W81

Model number

-

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