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Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 400

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A12 Bionic
Rank 2 - 7 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400
Multi-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A12 Bionic
Rank 2 - 8 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
1,116
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400
4C / 4T · 1.60 GHz
73
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
2,731
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400
4C / 4T · 1.60 GHz
273
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12 Bionic
Apple A12
576
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400
Qualcomm Adreno 306
19

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 400
FamilyApple A series (27)Qualcomm Snapdragon (105)
CPU groupApple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 (1)
ArchitectureA12Cortex-A7
Technology7 nm28 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletSmartphone / Tablet
Socket
PredecessorApple A11 Bionic
SuccessorApple A13 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 400
CPU Cores / Threads6 / 64 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)normal
Core Cluster 1: 2x Vortex
2.49 GHz
4x Cortex-7
1.60 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 4x Tempest
1.59 GHz
L2-Cache8.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 400
GPU nameApple A12Qualcomm Adreno 306
GPU frequency1.13 GHz0.40 - 0.40 GHz
CUs / Shader16 / 256 / 24
Raytracing
Max. displays10
Max. GPU Memory4 GB
Technology7 nm28 nm
Release dateQ3/2018Q3/2012

NPU AI performance

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 400
AI hardwareApple Neural EngineQualcomm AI engine
AI specifications8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPSHexagon QDSP6
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Apple A12 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 400
MemoryLPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
LPDDR3
LPDDR2
Max. Memory4 GB
Memory channels11
ECCNoNo
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 400
TDP6 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 400
Chip designChipletChiplet
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOSAndroid
Instruction setArmv8-A (64 bit)Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release dateQ3/2018Q4/2012
Release price
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

Your rating

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Apple A12 Bionic
Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400
4C / 4T · 1.60 GHz

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