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Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 845

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A12 Bionic
Rank 2 - 44 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
Multi-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A12 Bionic
Rank 2 - 79 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
1,286
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
8C / 8T · 2.80 GHz
552
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
2,353
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
8C / 8T · 2.80 GHz
2,022
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 845
8C / 8T · 2.80 GHz
504
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 845
8C / 8T · 2.80 GHz
2,165
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12 Bionic
Apple A12
576
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
Qualcomm Adreno 630
737
AnTuTu 8 Benchmark

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark

Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
425,605 pts
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
8C / 8T · 2.80 GHz
361,498 pts

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 845
FamilyApple A series (27)Qualcomm Snapdragon (105)
CPU groupApple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)Qualcomm Snapdragon 845/850 (2)
ArchitectureA12Kryo 385
Technology7 nm10 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletSmartphone / Tablet
Socket
PredecessorApple A11 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 835
SuccessorApple A13 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 855

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 845
CPU Cores / Threads6 / 68 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1: 2x Vortex
2.49 GHz
4x Kryo 385 Gold
2.80 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 4x Tempest
1.59 GHz
4x Kryo 385 Silver
1.80 GHz
L2-Cache8.00 MB1.50 MB
L3-Cache2.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Apple A12 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 845
GPU nameApple A12Qualcomm Adreno 630
GPU frequency1.13 GHz0.70 GHz
CUs / Shader16 / 256 / 256
Raytracing
Max. displays12
Max. GPU Memory4 GB8 GB
Technology7 nm10 nm
Release dateQ3/2018Q1/2018

NPU AI performance

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 845
AI hardwareApple Neural Engine
AI specifications8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Apple A12 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 845
MemoryLPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
LPDDR4X-3733 (52.0 GB/s)
Max. Memory4 GB10 GB
Memory channels14
ECCNoNo
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 845
TDP6 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

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Apple A12 BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 845
Chip designChipletChiplet
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOSAndroid
Instruction setArmv8-A (64 bit)Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release dateQ3/2018Q1/2018
Release price
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

Your rating

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Apple A12 Bionic
Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
8C / 8T · 2.80 GHz

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Apple A12 Bionic
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