Apple A12X Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

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Apple A12X Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

We compared the tablet version of 8 cores 2500MHz Apple A12X Bionic vs. the phone version 8 cores 3000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.5128 TFLOPS vs 1.008 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3000MHz vs 2500MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)

Lower TDP (5.3W vs 15W)

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A12X Bionic

1326

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +25%

1664

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A12X Bionic +13%

4588

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

4030

FP32 (float)

Apple A12X Bionic

1008

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +149%

2512

Apple A12X Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

CPU

4x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.59 GHz – Tempest

Architecture

1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X2
3x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A710
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510

2500 MHz

Frequency

3000 MHz

8

Cores

8

8 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

4 nm

10

Transistor count

-

15 W

TDP

5.3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple 12X GPU

GPU name

Adreno 730

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

818 MHz

7

Execution units

2

64

Shading units

768

4

Max size

24

1.008 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.5128 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12.1

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Hexagon

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.1

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

-

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

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, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Intel XMM 7560

Modem

Snapdragon X65

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3670 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

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

Info

Oct 2018

Announced

Dec 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1083

Model number

SM8450

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Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

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