Samsung Exynos 990 vs Apple A12 Bionic

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2730MHz Samsung Exynos 990 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 990 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.126 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (2730MHz vs 2490MHz)

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Apple A12 Bionic Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 9W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Samsung Exynos 990 +9%

707030

Apple A12 Bionic

643548

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Samsung Exynos 990

842

Apple A12 Bionic +54%

1301

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Samsung Exynos 990

2672

Apple A12 Bionic +6%

2843

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 990 +95%

1126

Apple A12 Bionic

576

Samsung Exynos 990

VS

Apple A12 Bionic

CPU

2x 2.73 GHz – Exynos M5
2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

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

2730 MHz

Frequency

2490 MHz

8

Cores

6

1 MB

L2 cache

8 MB

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

6.9

9 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G77 MP11

GPU name

Apple A12 GPU

800 MHz

GPU frequency

1125 MHz

11

Execution units

4

64

Shading units

64

16

Max size

4

1.126 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.576 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

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

Yes

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2400

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

1x 108MP, 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

Exynos 5123

Modem

Intel XMM 7560

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7350 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

Up to 3670 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2019

Announced

Sep 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

S5E9830

Model number

APL1W81

Samsung Exynos 990

Official page

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