Qualcomm Snapdragon 429 vs Apple A12 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 429 Apple A12 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 429 vs. 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic . 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 0.0288 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 6.4GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 2000MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 12nm)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

28

Apple A12 Bionic +1957%

576

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

VS

Apple A12 Bionic

CPU

4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

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

2000 MHz

Frequency

2490 MHz

4

Cores

6

-

L2 cache

8 MB

12 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

6.9

6 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 504

GPU name

Apple A12 GPU

450 MHz

GPU frequency

1125 MHz

1

Execution units

4

32

Shading units

64

4

Max size

4

0.0288 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.576 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4X

933 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

1x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

6.4 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 536

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 536

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

NVMe

1600 x 900

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

1K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

1080p at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

X6

Modem

Intel XMM 7560

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 5

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

No

Up to 150 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

Up to 75 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jun 2018

Announced

Sep 2018

Low end

Class

Flagship

SDM429

Model number

APL1W81

Qualcomm Snapdragon 429

Official page

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