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Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 4G

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A12 Bionic
Rank 2 - 39 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 4G
Multi-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A12 Bionic
Rank 2 - 65 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 4G
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
1,286
Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 4G
8C / 8T · 2.80 GHz
487
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
2,353
Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 4G
8C / 8T · 2.80 GHz
1,502
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 685 4G
8C / 8T · 2.80 GHz
445
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 685 4G
8C / 8T · 2.80 GHz
1,789

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 685 4G
FamilyApple A series (27)Qualcomm Snapdragon (105)
CPU groupApple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 (2)
ArchitectureA12Kryo 265
Technology7 nm6 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletSmartphone / Tablet
Socket
PredecessorApple A11 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 680 4G
SuccessorApple A13 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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Apple A12 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 685 4G
CPU Cores / Threads6 / 68 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1: 2x Vortex
2.49 GHz
4x Kryo 265 Gold
2.80 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 4x Tempest
1.59 GHz
4x Kryo 265 Silver
1.90 GHz
L2-Cache8.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Apple A12 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 685 4G
GPU nameApple A12Qualcomm Adreno 610
GPU frequency1.13 GHz0.00 GHz
CUs / Shader16 / 256 / 128
Raytracing
Max. displays10
Max. GPU Memory4 GB4 GB
Technology7 nm11 nm
Release dateQ3/2018Q2/2019

NPU AI performance

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Apple A12 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 685 4G
AI hardwareApple Neural Engine
AI specifications8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Apple A12 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 685 4G
MemoryLPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
LPDDR4X-2133 (17.0 GB/s)
Max. Memory4 GB
Memory channels12
ECCNoNo
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

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Apple A12 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 685 4G
TDP6 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

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Apple A12 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 685 4G
Chip designChipletChiplet
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOSAndroid
Instruction setArmv8-A (64 bit)Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release dateQ3/2018Q1/2023
Release price
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

Your rating

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Apple A12 Bionic
Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 4G
Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 4G
8C / 8T · 2.80 GHz

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