Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 . 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 0.1843 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 5.3GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 1800MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)
Released 11 months late
Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 's Advantages
Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A12 Bionic
+191%
643548
Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
220696
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A12 Bionic
+341%
1301
Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
295
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A12 Bionic
+161%
2843
Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
1088
FP32 (float)
Apple A12 Bionic
+213%
576
Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
184
CPU
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Architecture
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 260 Gold (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.6 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (Cortex-A53)
2490 MHz
Frequency
1800 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.3-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
8 MB
L2 cache
-
7 nm
Process
14 nm
6.9
Transistor count
2
6 W
TDP
5 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
Samsung
Graphics
Apple A12 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 509
1125 MHz
GPU frequency
720 MHz
4
Execution units
1
64
Shading units
128
4
Max size
8
0.576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.1843 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.0
2.0
OpenCL version
2.0
12
DirectX version
11
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR4
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
1333 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
5.3 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 680
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
2688 x 1242
Max display resolution
1900 x 1200
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 24MP, 2x 16MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, 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
X12
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 13
No
5G support
No
Up to 1000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 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
Oct 2017
Flagship
Class
Mid range
APL1W81
Model number
SDM636
