Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 429
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 4 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 429 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A12 Bionic 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.576 TFLOPS vs 0.0288 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 6.4GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 2000MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 12nm)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Apple A12 Bionic
+1957%
576
Qualcomm Snapdragon 429
28
CPU
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Architecture
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A53
2490 MHz
Frequency
2000 MHz
6
Cores
4
ARMv8.3-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
8 MB
L2 cache
-
7 nm
Process
12 nm
6.9
Transistor count
-
6 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
Samsung
Graphics
Apple A12 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 504
1125 MHz
GPU frequency
450 MHz
4
Execution units
1
64
Shading units
32
4
Max size
4
0.576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.0288 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
6.4 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 536
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1
2688 x 1242
Max display resolution
1600 x 900
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 16MP, 2x 8MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
1K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
1080p at 30FPS
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8
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
X6
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 5
No
5G support
No
Up to 1000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 150 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 75 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
5
5.0
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Info
Sep 2018
Announced
Jun 2018
Flagship
Class
Low end
APL1W81
Model number
SDM429
