Samsung Exynos 7420 vs Apple A12 Bionic

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2100MHz Samsung Exynos 7420 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

Apple A12 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.576 TFLOPS vs 0.1976 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 24.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 2100MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 7W)

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Samsung Exynos 7420

205159

Apple A12 Bionic +213%

643548

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Samsung Exynos 7420

195

Apple A12 Bionic +567%

1301

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Samsung Exynos 7420

840

Apple A12 Bionic +238%

2843

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 7420

197

Apple A12 Bionic +192%

576

Samsung Exynos 7420

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Apple A12 Bionic

CPU

4x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A57
4x 1.5 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

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

2100 MHz

Frequency

2490 MHz

8

Cores

6

512 KB

L2 cache

8 MB

14 nm

Process

7 nm

2

Transistor count

6.9

7 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T760 MP8

GPU name

Apple A12 GPU

772 MHz

GPU frequency

1125 MHz

8

Execution units

4

16

Shading units

64

4

Max size

4

0.1976 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.576 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

-

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

24.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

NVMe

2560 x 1440

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3

Shannon 333

Modem

Intel XMM 7560

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

No

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Apr 2015

Announced

Sep 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

APL1W81

Samsung Exynos 7420

Official page

-

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