Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

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Apple A12 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 . 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 0.1152 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 7.46GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 1800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 Advantages

Lower TDP (3W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A12 Bionic +319%

643548

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

153310

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A12 Bionic +669%

1301

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

169

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A12 Bionic +272%

2843

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

763

FP32 (float)

Apple A12 Bionic +400%

576

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

115

Apple A12 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

CPU

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

Architecture

8x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

2490 MHz

Frequency

1800 MHz

6

Cores

8

8 MB

L2 cache

-

7 nm

Process

14 nm

6.9

Transistor count

2

6 W

TDP

3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Adreno 506

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

4

Execution units

1

64

Shading units

96

4

Max size

4

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1152 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR3

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

7.46 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Hexagon 546

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 546

NVMe

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP, 2x 13MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Intel XMM 7560

Modem

X9

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

No

5G support

No

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Jun 2017

Flagship

Class

Low end

APL1W81

Model number

SDM450

-

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

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