Apple A12 Bionic vs Samsung Exynos 2500
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X9252x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A7253x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A7254x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A520
Frequency
2490 MHz
3300 MHz
Cores
6
10
Instruction set
ARMv8.3-A
ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache
128 KB
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L2 cache
0
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Process
7 nm
3 nm
Transistor count
6.9
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TDP
6 W
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Manufacturing
TSMC
Samsung
Graphics
GPU name
Apple A12 GPU
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GPU frequency
1125 MHz
1300 MHz
Execution units
4
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Shading units
64
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Vulkan version
1.1
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OpenCL version
2.0
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DirectX version
12
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Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR4X
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
5333 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
76.8 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
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Storage type
NVMe
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
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Video capture
4K at 60FPS
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
- H.264- H.265- AV1
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
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Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
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Wi-Fi
5
7
Bluetooth
5.0
5.4
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Info
Announced
Sep 2018
Aug 2025
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
APL1W81
S5E9955
AI
NPU
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Yes
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
643,548
2,519,784
Geekbench 6
1,301
2,648
Geekbench 6
2,843
9,881
FP32 (float)
576
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.