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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 vs Apple A12 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 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 8 Gen 1 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.5128 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3000MHz vs 2490MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)
Lower TDP (5.3W vs 6W)
Released 3 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +73%
1118907
Apple A12 Bionic
643548
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +27%
1664
Apple A12 Bionic
1301
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +41%
4030
Apple A12 Bionic
2843
FP32 (float)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +336%
2512
Apple A12 Bionic
576

CPU

1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X2
3x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A710
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
Architecture
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
3000 MHz
Frequency
2490 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv9-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.3-A
1 MB
L2 cache
8 MB
0
L3 cache
-
4 nm
Process
7 nm
-
Transistor count
6.9
5.3 W
TDP
6 W
Samsung
Manufacturing
TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 730
GPU name
Apple A12 GPU
818 MHz
GPU frequency
1125 MHz
2
Execution units
4
768
Shading units
64
24
Max size
4
2.5128 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.576 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.1
2.0
OpenCL version
2.0
12.1
DirectX version
12

Memory

LPDDR5
Memory type
LPDDR4X
3200 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
51.2 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
UFS 3.1
Storage type
NVMe
3840 x 2160
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
1x 200MP
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, VP8, 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
Snapdragon X65
Modem
Intel XMM 7560

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 10000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1000 Mbps
Up to 3670 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
5
5.3
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Dec 2021
Announced
Sep 2018
Flagship
Class
Flagship
SM8450
Model number
APL1W81
Official page
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