Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X43x 3 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.02 GHz – Cortex-A720
Frequency
2490 MHz
3200 MHz
Cores
6
8
Instruction set
ARMv8.3-A
ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache
128 KB
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L2 cache
0
2.75 MB
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
-
8 MB
Graphics
GPU name
Apple A12 GPU
Adreno 825
GPU frequency
1125 MHz
1150 MHz
Execution units
4
-
Shading units
64
-
Vulkan version
1.1
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OpenCL version
2.0
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DirectX version
12
-
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR4X
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4800 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
-
Storage type
NVMe
UFS 4.0
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
1x 320MP
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
- H.264- H.265- AV1- 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
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5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 1000 Mbps
Up to 4200 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
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Wi-Fi
5
7
Bluetooth
5.0
6.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
AI
NPU
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Hexagon
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
643,548
2,186,467
Geekbench 6
1,301
2,159
Geekbench 6
2,843
7,227
FP32 (float)
576
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