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Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Lite

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A12 Bionic
Rank 2 - 30 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Lite
Multi-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A12 Bionic
Rank 2 - 32 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Lite
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 820 Lite
4C / 4T · 1.80 GHz
335
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 820 Lite
4C / 4T · 1.80 GHz
864
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12 Bionic
Apple A12
576
Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Lite
Qualcomm Adreno 530
407

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 820 Lite
FamilyApple A series (27)Qualcomm Snapdragon (105)
CPU groupApple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 (3)
ArchitectureA12Kryo
Technology7 nm14 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletSmartphone / Tablet
Socket
PredecessorApple A11 Bionic
SuccessorApple A13 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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Apple A12 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 820 Lite
CPU Cores / Threads6 / 64 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1: 2x Vortex
2.49 GHz
2x Kryo
1.80 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 4x Tempest
1.59 GHz
2x Kryo
1.36 GHz
L2-Cache8.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Apple A12 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 820 Lite
GPU nameApple A12Qualcomm Adreno 530
GPU frequency1.13 GHz0.51 - 0.51 GHz
CUs / Shader16 / 256 / 256
Raytracing
Max. displays10
Max. GPU Memory4 GB
Technology7 nm14 nm
Release dateQ3/2018Q4/2015

NPU AI performance

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Apple A12 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 820 Lite
AI hardwareApple Neural Engine
AI specifications8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Apple A12 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 820 Lite
MemoryLPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
LPDDR4-1333 (10.7 GB/s)
Max. Memory4 GB8 GB
Memory channels14
ECCNoNo
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

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Apple A12 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 820 Lite
TDP6 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

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Apple A12 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 820 Lite
Chip designChipletChiplet
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOSAndroid
Instruction setArmv8-A (64 bit)Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release dateQ3/2018Q1/2016
Release price
Documents

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Apple A12 Bionic
Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Lite
Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Lite
4C / 4T · 1.80 GHz

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