Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 vs Apple A12 Bionic
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2960MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 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 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
Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
636716
Apple A12 Bionic
+1%
643548
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
996
Apple A12 Bionic
+30%
1301
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
2569
Apple A12 Bionic
+10%
2843
FP32 (float)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
+79%
1036
Apple A12 Bionic
576
CPU
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)
Architecture
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
2960 MHz
Frequency
2490 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv8.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.3-A
1 MB
L2 cache
8 MB
0
L3 cache
-
7 nm
Process
7 nm
6.7
Transistor count
6.9
6 W
TDP
6 W
Samsung
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Adreno 640
GPU name
Apple A12 GPU
675 MHz
GPU frequency
1125 MHz
2
Execution units
4
384
Shading units
64
16
Max size
4
1.0368 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.576 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.1
2.0
OpenCL version
2.0
12.1
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.13 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Hexagon 690
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
Storage type
NVMe
3840 x 2160
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
4K at 120FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, 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
X24 LTE, X50 5G
Modem
Intel XMM 7560
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 20
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 5000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1000 Mbps
Up to 1240 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
5
5.1
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Apr 2019
Announced
Sep 2018
Flagship
Class
Flagship
SM8150-AC
Model number
APL1W81
