Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 665
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 . 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 0.2432 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 2000MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 11nm)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 Advantages
Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)
Released 7 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A12 Bionic
+173%
643548
Qualcomm Snapdragon 665
235607
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A12 Bionic
+286%
1301
Qualcomm Snapdragon 665
337
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A12 Bionic
+143%
2843
Qualcomm Snapdragon 665
1167
FP32 (float)
Apple A12 Bionic
+137%
576
Qualcomm Snapdragon 665
243
CPU
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Architecture
4x 2 GHz – Kryo 260 Gold (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (Cortex-A53)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (Cortex-A53)
2490 MHz
Frequency
2000 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.3-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
8 MB
L2 cache
1 MB
7 nm
Process
11 nm
6.9
Transistor count
1.75
6 W
TDP
5 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
Samsung
Graphics
Apple A12 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 610
1125 MHz
GPU frequency
950 MHz
4
Execution units
1
64
Shading units
128
4
Max size
8
0.576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.2432 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.1
2.0
OpenCL version
2.0
12
DirectX version
12.1
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
1866 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
14.9 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 686
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
2688 x 1242
Max display resolution
2520 x 1080
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP, 2x 16MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K 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
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Intel XMM 7560
Modem
X12
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 13
No
5G support
No
Up to 1000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
5
5.0
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Info
Sep 2018
Announced
Apr 2019
Flagship
Class
Mid range
APL1W81
Model number
SM6125
