Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 vs Apple A12 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 Apple A12 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 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 625 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Apple A12 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.576 TFLOPS vs 0.1248 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 7.46GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 2000MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

156131

Apple A12 Bionic +312%

643548

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

124

Apple A12 Bionic +364%

576

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

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Apple A12 Bionic

CPU

8x 2 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

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

2000 MHz

Frequency

2490 MHz

8

Cores

6

-

L2 cache

8 MB

14 nm

Process

7 nm

2

Transistor count

6.9

5 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 506

GPU name

Apple A12 GPU

650 MHz

GPU frequency

1125 MHz

1

Execution units

4

96

Shading units

64

8

Max size

4

0.1248 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

7.46 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 546

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 546

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

NVMe

1900 x 1200

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

1x 24MP, 2x 13MP

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

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 150 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

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MSM8953

Model number

APL1W81

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

Official page

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