Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 vs Apple A12 Bionic
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2500MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 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 801 's Advantages
Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2490MHz)
Apple A12 Bionic 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.576 TFLOPS vs 0.148 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 28nm)
Released 4 years and 7 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Qualcomm Snapdragon 801
126118
Apple A12 Bionic
+410%
643548
FP32 (float)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 801
148
Apple A12 Bionic
+289%
576
CPU
4x 2.5 GHz – Krait
Architecture
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
2500 MHz
Frequency
2490 MHz
4
Cores
6
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.3-A
2 MB
L2 cache
8 MB
28 nm
Process
7 nm
1
Transistor count
6.9
6 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Adreno 330
GPU name
Apple A12 GPU
578 MHz
GPU frequency
1125 MHz
1
Execution units
4
128
Shading units
64
4
Max size
4
0.148 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.576 TFLOPS
1.0
Vulkan version
1.1
1.2
OpenCL version
2.0
11
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR3
Memory type
LPDDR4X
933 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
2x 32 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
14.9 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
No
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
eMMC 5.0
Storage type
NVMe
2560 x 2048
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
1x 21MP
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
4K at 30FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
-
Modem
Intel XMM 7560
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 5
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
No
5G support
No
Up to 150 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1000 Mbps
Up to 50 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
5
4.0
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Feb 2014
Announced
Sep 2018
Flagship
Class
Flagship
MSM8974 v3
Model number
APL1W81
