Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 Advantages
Larger memory bandwidth (76.8GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3200MHz vs 2490MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)
Released 6 years and 7 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A12 Bionic
643548
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
+239%
2186467
CPU
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Architecture
1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X4
3x 3 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.02 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 3 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.02 GHz – Cortex-A720
2490 MHz
Frequency
3200 MHz
6
Cores
8
ARMv8.3-A
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
8 MB
L2 cache
2.75 MB
-
L3 cache
8 MB
7 nm
Process
4 nm
6.9
Transistor count
-
6 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A12 GPU
GPU name
Adreno 825
1125 MHz
GPU frequency
1150 MHz
4
Execution units
-
64
Shading units
-
4
Max size
24
0.576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
-
1.1
Vulkan version
-
2.0
OpenCL version
-
12
DirectX version
-
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR5X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
4800 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
76.8 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon
NVMe
Storage type
UFS 4.0
2688 x 1242
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
- H.265
- AV1
- 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
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
-
No
5G support
Yes
Up to 1000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 4200 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Upload speed
-
5
Wi-Fi
7
5.0
Bluetooth
6.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2018
Announced
Apr 2025
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W81
Model number
SM8735
