Samsung Exynos 8890 vs Apple A12 Bionic

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2300MHz Samsung Exynos 8890 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

Samsung Exynos 8890 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Apple A12 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.576 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 26.82GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 2300MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Samsung Exynos 8890

228887

Apple A12 Bionic +181%

643548

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Samsung Exynos 8890

322

Apple A12 Bionic +304%

1301

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Samsung Exynos 8890

890

Apple A12 Bionic +219%

2843

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 8890

249

Apple A12 Bionic +131%

576

Samsung Exynos 8890

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Apple A12 Bionic

CPU

4x 2.3 GHz – Mongoose M1
4x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

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

2300 MHz

Frequency

2490 MHz

8

Cores

6

2 MB

L2 cache

8 MB

14 nm

Process

7 nm

2

Transistor count

6.9

5 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP12

GPU name

Apple A12 GPU

650 MHz

GPU frequency

1125 MHz

12

Execution units

4

16

Shading units

64

4

Max size

4

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.576 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11.2

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1800 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

26.82 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

3840 x 2400

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

1x 24MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

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

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Modem

Intel XMM 7560

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Nov 2015

Announced

Sep 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SGA8890A

Model number

APL1W81

Samsung Exynos 8890

Official page

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