Samsung Exynos 7870 vs Apple A12 Bionic

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1600MHz Samsung Exynos 7870 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

Samsung Exynos 7870 Advantages

Lower TDP (3W vs 6W)

Apple A12 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.576 TFLOPS vs 0.0224 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 1600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Samsung Exynos 7870

146176

Apple A12 Bionic +340%

643548

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Samsung Exynos 7870

172

Apple A12 Bionic +656%

1301

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Samsung Exynos 7870

495

Apple A12 Bionic +474%

2843

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 7870

22

Apple A12 Bionic +2518%

576

Samsung Exynos 7870

VS

Apple A12 Bionic

CPU

8x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest

1600 MHz

Frequency

2490 MHz

8

Cores

6

-

L2 cache

8 MB

14 nm

Process

7 nm

2

Transistor count

6.9

3 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP1

GPU name

Apple A12 GPU

700 MHz

GPU frequency

1125 MHz

1

Execution units

4

16

Shading units

64

4

Max size

4

0.0224 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.576 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4X

933 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

1x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

NVMe

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

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

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Feb 2016

Announced

Sep 2018

Low end

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

APL1W81

Samsung Exynos 7870

Official page

-

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