Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 435
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 1400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 . 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 0.0432 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 6.4GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 1400MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 28nm)
Released 2 years and 7 months late
Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 's Advantages
Lower TDP (4W vs 6W)
Score
Benchmark
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A12 Bionic
+822%
1301
Qualcomm Snapdragon 435
141
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A12 Bionic
+358%
2843
Qualcomm Snapdragon 435
620
FP32 (float)
Apple A12 Bionic
+1239%
576
Qualcomm Snapdragon 435
43
CPU
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Architecture
8x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53
2490 MHz
Frequency
1400 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.3-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
8 MB
L2 cache
-
7 nm
Process
28 nm
6.9
Transistor count
1
6 W
TDP
4 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
Samsung
Graphics
Apple A12 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 505
1125 MHz
GPU frequency
450 MHz
4
Execution units
1
64
Shading units
48
4
Max size
4
0.576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.0432 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
800 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
1920 x 1200
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 21MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
1K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
1080p at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, 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
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 100 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
Feb 2016
Flagship
Class
Low end
APL1W81
Model number
MSM8940
