Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2450MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 . 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 0.5675 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 2450MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 10nm)
Lower TDP (6W vs 9W)
Released 1 years and 10 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A12 Bionic
+89%
643548
Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
339384
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A12 Bionic
+213%
1301
Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
415
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A12 Bionic
+87%
2843
Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
1519
FP32 (float)
Apple A12 Bionic
+1%
576
Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
567
CPU
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Architecture
4x 2.45 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A53)
2490 MHz
Frequency
2450 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.3-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
8 MB
L2 cache
2 MB
7 nm
Process
10 nm
6.9
Transistor count
3
6 W
TDP
9 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
Samsung
Graphics
Apple A12 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 540
1125 MHz
GPU frequency
739 MHz
4
Execution units
1
64
Shading units
384
4
Max size
8
0.576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.5675 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.0
2.0
OpenCL version
2.0
12
DirectX version
11
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
1866 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 32 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
29.8 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 682
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 2.1
2688 x 1242
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 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, 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
X16
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 16
No
5G support
No
Up to 1000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1000 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
Nov 2016
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W81
Model number
MSM8998
