Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 vs Apple A12 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Apple A12 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2840MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 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 865 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.2021 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2840MHz vs 2490MHz)

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 +14%

738889

Apple A12 Bionic

643548

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865

1128

Apple A12 Bionic +15%

1301

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 +15%

3277

Apple A12 Bionic

2843

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 +108%

1202

Apple A12 Bionic

576

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865

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Apple A12 Bionic

CPU

1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55)

Architecture

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

2840 MHz

Frequency

2490 MHz

8

Cores

6

1 MB

L2 cache

8 MB

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

7 nm

10.3

Transistor count

6.9

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 650

GPU name

Apple A12 GPU

587 MHz

GPU frequency

1125 MHz

2

Execution units

4

512

Shading units

64

16

Max size

4

1.2021 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

2750 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

44 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 698

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 698

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

1x 200MP, 2x 25MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS

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

X55

Modem

Intel XMM 7560

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 22

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

Up to 3000 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.1

Bluetooth

5.0

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

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Dec 2019

Announced

Sep 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SM8250-AB

Model number

APL1W81

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865

Official page

-

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