Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2840MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A12 Bionic 's Advantages
Lower TDP (6W vs 10W)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.72 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2840MHz vs 2490MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)
Released 2 years and 3 months late
Score
Benchmark
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A12 Bionic
1301
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
+13%
1481
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A12 Bionic
2843
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
+33%
3794
FP32 (float)
Apple A12 Bionic
576
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
+198%
1720
CPU
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Architecture
1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
2490 MHz
Frequency
2840 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.3-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.4-A
8 MB
L2 cache
1 MB
-
L3 cache
0
7 nm
Process
5 nm
6.9
Transistor count
-
6 W
TDP
10 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
-
Graphics
Apple A12 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 660
1125 MHz
GPU frequency
840 MHz
4
Execution units
2
64
Shading units
512
4
Max size
24
0.576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
1.72 TFLOPS
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 780
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 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K 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
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Intel XMM 7560
Modem
X60
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 22
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
5.2
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2018
Announced
Dec 2020
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W81
Model number
SM8350
