Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 vs Apple A12 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Apple A12 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 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 2 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (3.4816 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (64GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3200MHz vs 2490MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Apple A12 Bionic Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 6.3W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +138%

1534534

Apple A12 Bionic

643548

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +54%

2004

Apple A12 Bionic

1301

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +87%

5344

Apple A12 Bionic

2843

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +504%

3481

Apple A12 Bionic

576

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

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Apple A12 Bionic

CPU

1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X3
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A710
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510

Architecture

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

3200 MHz

Frequency

2490 MHz

8

Cores

6

1 MB

L2 cache

8 MB

0

L3 cache

-

4 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

6.9

6.3 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 740

GPU name

Apple A12 GPU

680 MHz

GPU frequency

1125 MHz

2

Execution units

4

1280

Shading units

64

24

Max size

4

3.4816 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.576 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12.1

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

4200 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

64 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

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 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, 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 X70

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 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

5

5.3

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Nov 2022

Announced

Sep 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SM8550-AB

Model number

APL1W81

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

Official page

-

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