Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2960MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.0368 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.13GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2960MHz vs 2490MHz)
Released 7 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A12 Bionic
+1%
643548
Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
636716
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A12 Bionic
+30%
1301
Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
996
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A12 Bionic
+10%
2843
Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
2569
FP32 (float)
Apple A12 Bionic
576
Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
+79%
1036
CPU
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Architecture
1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Prime)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
2490 MHz
Frequency
2960 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.3-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
8 MB
L2 cache
1 MB
-
L3 cache
0
7 nm
Process
7 nm
6.9
Transistor count
6.7
6 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
Samsung
Graphics
Apple A12 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 640
1125 MHz
GPU frequency
675 MHz
4
Execution units
2
64
Shading units
384
4
Max size
16
0.576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
1.0368 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.1
2.0
OpenCL version
2.0
12
DirectX version
12.1
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
34.13 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 690
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
2688 x 1242
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
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
X24 LTE, X50 5G
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 20
No
5G support
Yes
Up to 1000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 5000 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 1240 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
6
5.0
Bluetooth
5.1
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Info
Sep 2018
Announced
Apr 2019
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W81
Model number
SM8150-AC
