Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs Apple A12 Bionic

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Apple A12 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 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 0.3343 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 2342MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 11W)

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

Apple A12 Bionic +176%

643548

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

391

Apple A12 Bionic +232%

1301

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

Apple A12 Bionic +256%

2843

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

334

Apple A12 Bionic +72%

576

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

VS

Apple A12 Bionic

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

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

2342 MHz

Frequency

2490 MHz

4

Cores

6

1 MB

L2 cache

8 MB

14 nm

Process

7 nm

2

Transistor count

6.9

11 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Apple A12 GPU

653 MHz

GPU frequency

1125 MHz

1

Execution units

4

256

Shading units

64

8

Max size

4

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.576 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 680

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

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, VP8, 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

X12

Modem

Intel XMM 7560

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

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

4.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Aug 2016

Announced

Sep 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

APL1W81

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

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