Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 vs Apple A12 Bionic
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3300MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 vs. 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (4.7308 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (77GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3300MHz vs 2490MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)
Released 5 years and 1 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
+223%
2079542
Apple A12 Bionic
643548
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
+67%
2181
Apple A12 Bionic
1301
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
+155%
7250
Apple A12 Bionic
2843
FP32 (float)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
+721%
4730
Apple A12 Bionic
576
CPU
1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4
3x 3.15 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.26 GHz – Cortex-A520
Architecture
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
3300 MHz
Frequency
2490 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv9.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.3-A
-
L2 cache
8 MB
0
L3 cache
-
4 nm
Process
7 nm
-
Transistor count
6.9
-
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Adreno 750
GPU name
Apple A12 GPU
903 MHz
GPU frequency
1125 MHz
2
Execution units
4
1536
Shading units
64
24
Max size
4
4.7308 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.576 TFLOPS
1.3
Vulkan version
1.1
2.0
OpenCL version
2.0
12.1
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR5X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
4800 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
77 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Hexagon
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
UFS 4.0
Storage type
NVMe
3840 x 2160
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
1x 200MP
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
Snapdragon X75
Modem
Intel XMM 7560
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 10000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1000 Mbps
Up to 3500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
7
Wi-Fi
5
5.4
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Oct 2023
Announced
Sep 2018
Flagship
Class
Flagship
SM8650-AB
Model number
APL1W81
