Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 vs Apple A12 Bionic
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2630MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 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 7 Gen 3 Advantages
Higher Frequency (2630MHz vs 2490MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)
Released 5 years and 2 months late
Apple A12 Bionic Advantages
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 25.6GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3
+34%
866863
Apple A12 Bionic
643548
CPU
1x 2.63 GHz – Cortex-A715
3x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A715
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
3x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A715
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
Architecture
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
2630 MHz
Frequency
2490 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv8.6-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.3-A
-
L2 cache
8 MB
0
L3 cache
-
4 nm
Process
7 nm
-
Transistor count
6.9
6 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Adreno 720
GPU name
Apple A12 GPU
-
GPU frequency
1125 MHz
-
Execution units
4
-
Shading units
64
16
Max size
4
-
FLOPS
0.576 TFLOPS
1.3
Vulkan version
1.1
2.0
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR5
Memory type
LPDDR4X
3200 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
2x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
25.6 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
AI
Yes
NPU
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Yes
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1
Storage type
NVMe
3360 x 1600
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
1x 200MP
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
4K at 60FPS, 1K at 120FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS, 1080p 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
Snapdragon X63
Modem
Intel XMM 7560
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 22
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 5000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1000 Mbps
Up to 1600 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
5
5.3
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Nov 2023
Announced
Sep 2018
Mid range
Class
Flagship
SM7550-AB
Model number
APL1W81
