Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 3000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.6896 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (67.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3000MHz vs 2490MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)
Released 5 years and 6 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A12 Bionic
643548
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
+131%
1490645
FP32 (float)
Apple A12 Bionic
576
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
+193%
1689
CPU
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Architecture
1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520
4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520
2490 MHz
Frequency
3000 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.3-A
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
8 MB
L2 cache
1 MB
-
L3 cache
8 MB
7 nm
Process
4 nm
6.9
Transistor count
-
6 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A12 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 735
1125 MHz
GPU frequency
1100 MHz
4
Execution units
2
64
Shading units
256
4
Max size
24
0.576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
1.6896 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.3
2.0
OpenCL version
2.0
12
DirectX version
12.1
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR5X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
4200 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
67.2 Gbit/s
AI
-
NPU
Hexagon
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
2688 x 1242
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 200MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 120FPS
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- 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
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Intel XMM 7560
Modem
Snapdragon X70 5G
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 22
No
5G support
Yes
Up to 1000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 6500 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
7
5.0
Bluetooth
5.4
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2018
Announced
Mar 2024
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W81
Model number
SM8635
