Apple A12 Bionic vs Samsung Exynos 980

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Apple A12 Bionic

Samsung Exynos 980

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Samsung Exynos 980 . 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 0.2621 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 8nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 9W)

Samsung Exynos 980 Advantages

Released 1 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A12 Bionic +48%

643548

Samsung Exynos 980

433794

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A12 Bionic +49%

1301

Samsung Exynos 980

869

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A12 Bionic +52%

2843

Samsung Exynos 980

1867

FP32 (float)

Apple A12 Bionic +119%

576

Samsung Exynos 980

262

Apple A12 Bionic

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Samsung Exynos 980

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A77
6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

2490 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8.3-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

8 MB

L2 cache

-

7 nm

Process

8 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP5

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

728 MHz

4

Execution units

5

64

Shading units

36

4

Max size

8

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2621 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

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

3360 x 1440

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP, 2x 20MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Intel XMM 7560

Modem

Exynos 5123

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 3550 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1380 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Sep 2019

Flagship

Class

Mid range

APL1W81

Model number

S5E9630

-

Official page

Samsung Exynos 980

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