Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 vs Apple A12 Bionic
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 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 6 Gen 1 Advantages
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)
Released 4 years late
Apple A12 Bionic Advantages
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 22GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 2200MHz)
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1
582743
Apple A12 Bionic
+10%
643548
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1
946
Apple A12 Bionic
+37%
1301
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1
2750
Apple A12 Bionic
+3%
2843
CPU
4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
Architecture
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
2200 MHz
Frequency
2490 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv8.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.3-A
-
L2 cache
8 MB
4 nm
Process
7 nm
-
Transistor count
6.9
-
TDP
6 W
Samsung
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Adreno 710
GPU name
Apple A12 GPU
-
GPU frequency
1125 MHz
-
Execution units
4
-
Shading units
64
8
Max size
4
-
FLOPS
0.576 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.1
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR5
Memory type
LPDDR4X
2750 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
2x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
22 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Yes
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
UFS 2.2
Storage type
NVMe
2520 x 1080
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
1x 200MP
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
4K at 30FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
X62
Modem
Intel XMM 7560
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 2900 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1000 Mbps
Up to 1600 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
5
5.2
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Sep 2022
Announced
Sep 2018
Mid range
Class
Flagship
SM6450
Model number
APL1W81
