Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 vs Apple A12 Bionic
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 260 Gold (Cortex-A73)4x 1.6 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (Cortex-A53)
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Frequency
1800 MHz
2490 MHz
Cores
8
6
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv8.3-A
Process
14 nm
7 nm
Transistor count
2
6.9
TDP
5 W
6 W
Manufacturing
Samsung
TSMC
L1 cache
—
128 KB
L2 cache
—
0
Graphics
GPU name
Adreno 509
Apple A12 GPU
GPU frequency
720 MHz
1125 MHz
Execution units
1
4
Shading units
128
64
Vulkan version
1.0
1.1
OpenCL version
2.0
2.0
DirectX version
11
12
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR4
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
1333 MHz
2133 MHz
Bus
2x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
5.3 Gbit/s
34.1 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 680
Neural Engine
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
NVMe
Max display resolution
1900 x 1200
2688 x 1242
Max camera resolution
1x 24MP, 2x 16MP
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 13
LTE Cat. 18
5G support
No
No
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
Up to 1000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Wi-Fi
5
5
Bluetooth
5.0
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Announced
Oct 2017
Sep 2018
Class
Mid range
Flagship
Model number
SDM636
APL1W81
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
220,696
643,548
Geekbench 6
295
1,301
Geekbench 6
1,088
2,843
FP32 (float)
184
576
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.