Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus vs Apple A12 Bionic

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus

Apple A12 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2960MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus 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 855 Plus Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.0368 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.13GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2960MHz vs 2490MHz)

Released 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus

552687

Apple A12 Bionic +16%

643548

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus

1040

Apple A12 Bionic +25%

1301

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus

2865

Apple A12 Bionic

2843

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus +79%

1036

Apple A12 Bionic

576

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus

VS

Apple A12 Bionic

CPU

1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)

Architecture

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

2960 MHz

Frequency

2490 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.3-A

1 MB

L2 cache

8 MB

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

7 nm

6.7

Transistor count

6.9

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 640

GPU name

Apple A12 GPU

675 MHz

GPU frequency

1125 MHz

2

Execution units

4

384

Shading units

64

16

Max size

4

1.0368 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

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.13 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 690

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 3.0

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

1x 192MP, 2x 22MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

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

X24 LTE, X50 5G

Modem

Intel XMM 7560

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 20

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 5000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

Up to 1240 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jul 2019

Announced

Sep 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SM8150-AC

Model number

APL1W81

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus

Official page

-

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