Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 vs Apple A12 Bionic
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 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 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
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
+239%
2186467
Apple A12 Bionic
643548
CPU
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
Architecture
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
3200 MHz
Frequency
2490 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv9.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.3-A
2.75 MB
L2 cache
8 MB
8 MB
L3 cache
-
4 nm
Process
7 nm
-
Transistor count
6.9
-
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Adreno 825
GPU name
Apple A12 GPU
1150 MHz
GPU frequency
1125 MHz
-
Execution units
4
-
Shading units
64
24
Max size
4
-
FLOPS
0.576 TFLOPS
-
Vulkan version
1.1
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR5X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
4800 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
76.8 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Hexagon
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
UFS 4.0
Storage type
NVMe
3840 x 2160
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
1x 320MP
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
-
Modem
Intel XMM 7560
Connectivity
-
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 4200 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1000 Mbps
-
Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
7
Wi-Fi
5
6.0
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Apr 2025
Announced
Sep 2018
Flagship
Class
Flagship
SM8735
Model number
APL1W81
