Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 vs Apple A12 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 Apple A12 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 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 0.1536 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 1800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 28nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 7W)

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 652

208

Apple A12 Bionic +525%

1301

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 652

705

Apple A12 Bionic +303%

2843

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 652

153

Apple A12 Bionic +276%

576

Qualcomm Snapdragon 652

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Apple A12 Bionic

CPU

4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

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

1800 MHz

Frequency

2490 MHz

8

Cores

6

256 KB

L2 cache

8 MB

28 nm

Process

7 nm

1

Transistor count

6.9

7 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 510

GPU name

Apple A12 GPU

600 MHz

GPU frequency

1125 MHz

1

Execution units

4

128

Shading units

64

4

Max size

4

0.1536 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

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon V56

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon V56

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

NVMe

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

1x 21MP, 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

X8

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 2015

Announced

Sep 2018

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MSM8976

Model number

APL1W81

Qualcomm Snapdragon 652

Official page

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