Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
4x 2.45 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A73)4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A53)
Frequency
2490 MHz
2450 MHz
Cores
6
8
Instruction set
ARMv8.3-A
ARMv8-A
L1 cache
128 KB
128 KB
L2 cache
0
0
Process
7 nm
10 nm
Transistor count
6.9
3
TDP
6 W
9 W
Manufacturing
TSMC
Samsung

Graphics

GPU name
Apple A12 GPU
Adreno 540
GPU frequency
1125 MHz
739 MHz
Execution units
4
1
Shading units
64
384
Vulkan version
1.1
1.0
OpenCL version
2.0
2.0
DirectX version
12
11

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR4X
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
1866 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
2x 32 Bit
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
29.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
Hexagon 682
Storage type
NVMe
UFS 2.1
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
1x 32MP, 2x 16MP
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
H.264, H.265, 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. 16
5G support
No
No
Download speed
Up to 1000 Mbps
Up to 1000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi
5
5
Bluetooth
5.0
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Announced
Sep 2018
Nov 2016
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
APL1W81
MSM8998
Official page
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📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
643,548
339,384
Geekbench 6
1,301
415
Geekbench 6
2,843
1,519
FP32 (float)
576
567