Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A12 Bionic Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.576 TFLOPS vs 0.3667 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 25.6GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 2200MHz)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 Advantages
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)
Released 4 years and 9 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A12 Bionic
+50%
643548
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2
428143
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A12 Bionic
+40%
1301
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2
926
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A12 Bionic
+33%
2843
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2
2128
FP32 (float)
Apple A12 Bionic
+57%
576
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2
366
CPU
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Architecture
2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A78
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
2490 MHz
Frequency
2200 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.3-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
8 MB
L2 cache
-
7 nm
Process
4 nm
6.9
Transistor count
-
6 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
Samsung
Graphics
Apple A12 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 613
1125 MHz
GPU frequency
955 MHz
4
Execution units
2
64
Shading units
96
4
Max size
-
0.576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.3667 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
3200 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
25.6 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1
2688 x 1242
Max display resolution
2520 x 1080
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 108MP, 2x 16MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
1K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
1080p at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, 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
Snapdragon X61
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
No
5G support
Yes
Up to 1000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 2500 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 900 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
5
5.0
Bluetooth
5.2
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2018
Announced
Jun 2023
Flagship
Class
Mid range
APL1W81
Model number
SM4450
