Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 vs Apple A12 Bionic

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

Apple A12 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2840MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 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 888 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.72 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2840MHz vs 2490MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Apple A12 Bionic Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 10W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 +13%

1481

Apple A12 Bionic

1301

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 +33%

3794

Apple A12 Bionic

2843

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 +198%

1720

Apple A12 Bionic

576

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

VS

Apple A12 Bionic

CPU

1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)

Architecture

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

2840 MHz

Frequency

2490 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8.4-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.3-A

1 MB

L2 cache

8 MB

0

L3 cache

-

5 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

6.9

10 W

TDP

6 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 660

GPU name

Apple A12 GPU

840 MHz

GPU frequency

1125 MHz

2

Execution units

4

512

Shading units

64

24

Max size

4

1.72 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.576 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

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 780

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 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

8K at 30FPS

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

X60

Modem

Intel XMM 7560

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 22

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

是

5G support

No

Up to 2500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

Up to 316 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.2

Bluetooth

5.0

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

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Dec 2020

Announced

Sep 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SM8350

Model number

APL1W81

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

Official page

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