Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 vs Apple A12 Bionic

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

Apple A12 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 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 685 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2800MHz vs 2490MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 7nm)

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Apple A12 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.576 TFLOPS vs 0.2432 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 17GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

354293

Apple A12 Bionic +81%

643548

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

475

Apple A12 Bionic +173%

1301

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

1517

Apple A12 Bionic +87%

2843

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

243

Apple A12 Bionic +137%

576

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

VS

Apple A12 Bionic

CPU

4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

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

2800 MHz

Frequency

2490 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.3-A

-

L2 cache

8 MB

6 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

6.9

-

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 610

GPU name

Apple A12 GPU

950 MHz

GPU frequency

1125 MHz

1

Execution units

4

128

Shading units

64

8

Max size

4

0.2432 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.576 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12.1

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

17 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 686

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 2.2

Storage type

NVMe

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

1x 108MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

1080p at 60FPS

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

X11

Modem

Intel XMM 7560

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

No

Up to 390 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Mar 2023

Announced

Sep 2018

Low end

Class

Flagship

SM6225-AD

Model number

APL1W81

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

Official page

-

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