Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X43x 3.15 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.26 GHz – Cortex-A520
Frequency
2490 MHz
3300 MHz
Cores
6
8
Instruction set
ARMv8.3-A
ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache
128 KB
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L2 cache
0
—
Process
7 nm
4 nm
Transistor count
6.9
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TDP
6 W
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Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L3 cache
—
0
Graphics
GPU name
Apple A12 GPU
Adreno 750
GPU frequency
1125 MHz
903 MHz
Execution units
4
2
Shading units
64
1536
Vulkan version
1.1
1.3
OpenCL version
2.0
2.0
DirectX version
12
12.1
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR4X
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4800 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
77 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
Hexagon
Storage type
NVMe
UFS 4.0
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
1x 200MP
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9
Audio codecs
AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 1000 Mbps
Up to 10000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi
5
7
Bluetooth
5.0
5.4
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Announced
Sep 2018
Oct 2023
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
APL1W81
SM8650-AB
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
643,548
2,079,542
Geekbench 6
1,301
2,181
Geekbench 6
2,843
7,250
FP32 (float)
576
4,730
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.