Apple A12Z Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

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Apple A12Z Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

We compared the tablet version of 8 cores 2500MHz Apple A12Z Bionic vs. the phone version 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A12Z Bionic Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (68.2GB/s vs 64GB/s)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (3.4816 TFLOPS vs 1.106 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3200MHz vs 2500MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)

Lower TDP (6.3W vs 15W)

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A12Z Bionic

1322

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +51%

2004

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A12Z Bionic

4642

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +15%

5344

FP32 (float)

Apple A12Z Bionic

1106

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +214%

3481

Apple A12Z Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

CPU

4x 2.5 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.59 GHz – Tempest

Architecture

1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X3
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A710
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510

2500 MHz

Frequency

3200 MHz

8

Cores

8

8 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

4 nm

10

Transistor count

-

15 W

TDP

6.3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A12Z GPU

GPU name

Adreno 740

1340 MHz

GPU frequency

680 MHz

64

Execution units

2

512

Shading units

1280

6

Max size

24

1.106 TFLOPS

FLOPS

3.4816 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5X

4266 MHz

Memory frequency

4200 MHz

2x 64 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

68.2 GB/s

Max bandwidth

64 Gbit/s

AI

Apple M12

NPU

Hexagon

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M12

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

NVMe

Storage type

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Intel XMM 7560

Modem

Snapdragon X70

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

7

5.0

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

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

Info

Mar 2020

Announced

Nov 2022

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1083

Model number

SM8550-AB

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Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

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