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Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 780G

Last updated: 2026-06-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A12 Bionic

Rank 2 - 77 %

Qualcomm Snapdragon 780G

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 91 %

Apple A12 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Qualcomm Snapdragon 780G

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

1,286

8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz

1,027

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

2,353

8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz

2,566

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

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

1,116

8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz

823

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

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

2,731

8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz

3,027

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12

576

Qualcomm Adreno 642

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

425,605 pts

8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz

509,756 pts

AI performance (NPU)

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

5.0 TOPS

8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz

12.0 TOPS

More benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 780G
Family	Apple A series (27)	Qualcomm Snapdragon (105)
CPU group	Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)	Qualcomm Snapdragon 780 (2)
Architecture	A12	Kryo 670
Technology	7 nm	5 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket
Predecessor	Apple A11 Bionic
Successor	Apple A13 Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 780G
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x Vortex 2.49 GHz	1x Kryo 670 Prime 2.40 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Tempest 1.59 GHz	3x Kryo 670 Gold 2.20 GHz
Core Cluster 3:		4x Kryo 670 Silver 1.90 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB
L3-Cache		2.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 780G
GPU name	Apple A12	Qualcomm Adreno 642
GPU frequency	1.13 GHz	0.00 GHz
CUs / Shader	16 / 256	4 / 384
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	1	1
Max. GPU Memory	4 GB	4 GB
Technology	7 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q3/2018	Q2/2021

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 780G
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS	Hexagon 770 @ 12 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 780G
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory	4 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	1	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 780G
TDP	6 W	5 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 780G
Chip design	Chiplet	Chiplet
AES-NI	✗	✗
Operating systems	iOS	Android
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release date	Q3/2018	Q2/2021
Release price
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple A12 Bionic is 3.4 stars (106 ratings), while Qualcomm Snapdragon 780G has received 4.4 stars (11 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★

Qualcomm Snapdragon 780G
8C / 8T · 2.40 GHz

★★★★★