Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 865
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2840MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.2021 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2840MHz vs 2490MHz)
Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)
Released 1 years and 3 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A12 Bionic
643548
Qualcomm Snapdragon 865
+14%
738889
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A12 Bionic
+15%
1301
Qualcomm Snapdragon 865
1128
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A12 Bionic
2843
Qualcomm Snapdragon 865
+15%
3277
FP32 (float)
Apple A12 Bionic
576
Qualcomm Snapdragon 865
+108%
1202
CPU
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Architecture
1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55)
2490 MHz
Frequency
2840 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
10.3
6 W
TDP
5 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A12 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 650
1125 MHz
GPU frequency
587 MHz
4
Execution units
2
64
Shading units
512
4
Max size
16
0.576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
1.2021 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.1
2.0
OpenCL version
2.0
12
DirectX version
12.1
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR5
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
2750 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
44 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 698
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 200MP, 2x 25MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS
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
X55
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 22
No
5G support
Yes
Up to 1000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 7500 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3000 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
6
5.0
Bluetooth
5.1
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2018
Announced
Dec 2019
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W81
Model number
SM8250-AB
