Apple A12 Bionic vs Samsung Exynos 9820

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2730MHz Samsung Exynos 9820 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A12 Bionic Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 33.4GB/s)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 8nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 9W)

Samsung Exynos 9820 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.607 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2730MHz vs 2490MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A12 Bionic

643548

Samsung Exynos 9820

648880

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A12 Bionic +74%

1301

Samsung Exynos 9820

747

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A12 Bionic +21%

2843

Samsung Exynos 9820

2333

FP32 (float)

Apple A12 Bionic

576

Samsung Exynos 9820 +5%

607

Apple A12 Bionic

VS

Samsung Exynos 9820

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.73 GHz – Mongoose M4
2x 2.31 GHz – Cortex-A75
4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55

2490 MHz

Frequency

2730 MHz

6

Cores

8

8 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

-

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

8 nm

6.9

Transistor count

8.5

6 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP12

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

702 MHz

4

Execution units

12

64

Shading units

36

4

Max size

12

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.607 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

33.4 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

3840 x 2400

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 150FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 150FPS

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 5100

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 20

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2000 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 316 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Nov 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W81

Model number

S5E9820

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Official page

Samsung Exynos 9820

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