Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 vs Apple A12 Bionic

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

Apple A12 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 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 636 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Apple A12 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.576 TFLOPS vs 0.1843 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 5.3GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 1800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

220696

Apple A12 Bionic +191%

643548

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

295

Apple A12 Bionic +341%

1301

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

1088

Apple A12 Bionic +161%

2843

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

184

Apple A12 Bionic +213%

576

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

VS

Apple A12 Bionic

CPU

4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 260 Gold (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.6 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (Cortex-A53)

Architecture

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

1800 MHz

Frequency

2490 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.3-A

-

L2 cache

8 MB

14 nm

Process

7 nm

2

Transistor count

6.9

5 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 509

GPU name

Apple A12 GPU

720 MHz

GPU frequency

1125 MHz

1

Execution units

4

128

Shading units

64

8

Max size

4

0.1843 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.576 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

5.3 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

NVMe

1900 x 1200

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

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, VP8, VP9

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

X12

Modem

Intel XMM 7560

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

Up to 150 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

Oct 2017

Announced

Sep 2018

Mid range

Class

Flagship

SDM636

Model number

APL1W81

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

Official page

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