Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 vs Apple A12 Bionic

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

Apple A12 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 Advantages

Lower TDP (4W vs 6W)

Apple A12 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.576 TFLOPS vs 0.0432 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 1400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 28nm)

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

141

Apple A12 Bionic +822%

1301

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

620

Apple A12 Bionic +358%

2843

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

43

Apple A12 Bionic +1239%

576

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

VS

Apple A12 Bionic

CPU

8x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

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

1400 MHz

Frequency

2490 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.3-A

-

L2 cache

8 MB

28 nm

Process

7 nm

1

Transistor count

6.9

4 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 505

GPU name

Apple A12 GPU

450 MHz

GPU frequency

1125 MHz

1

Execution units

4

48

Shading units

64

4

Max size

4

0.0432 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

800 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

1x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

6.4 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 536

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

NVMe

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

1x 21MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

1K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, 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

X9

Modem

Intel XMM 7560

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

Up to 100 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Feb 2016

Announced

Sep 2018

Low end

Class

Flagship

MSM8940

Model number

APL1W81

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

Official page

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