Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 's Advantages
Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3200MHz vs 2490MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)
Released 3 years and 8 months late
Score
Benchmark
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A12 Bionic
1301
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
+27%
1665
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A12 Bionic
2843
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
+47%
4202
CPU
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Architecture
1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X2
3x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A710
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510
2490 MHz
Frequency
3200 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.3-A
Instruction set
ARMv9-A
8 MB
L2 cache
-
-
L3 cache
0
7 nm
Process
4 nm
6.9
Transistor count
-
6 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
-
Graphics
Apple A12 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 730
1125 MHz
GPU frequency
900 MHz
4
Execution units
-
64
Shading units
-
4
Max size
24
0.576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
-
1.1
Vulkan version
1.1
2.0
OpenCL version
2.0
12
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR5
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
3200 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
51.2 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 3.1
2688 x 1242
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 200MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
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
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Intel XMM 7560
Modem
Snapdragon X65
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
No
5G support
是
Up to 1000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 2500 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 316 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
6
5.0
Bluetooth
5.3
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2018
Announced
May 2022
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W81
Model number
-
