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Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

Last updated: 2026-06-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 70 %

Apple A12 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 49 %

Apple A12 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

1,286

8C / 8T · 3.36 GHz

1,985

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

2,353

8C / 8T · 3.36 GHz

5,315

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

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

1,116

8C / 8T · 3.36 GHz

1,502

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

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

2,731

8C / 8T · 3.36 GHz

5,089

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12

576

Qualcomm Adreno 740

1,740

AI performance (NPU)

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

5.0 TOPS

8C / 8T · 3.36 GHz

26.0 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 10 Benchmark
25 entries

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 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 8 Gen 2
Family	Apple A series (27)	Qualcomm Snapdragon (105)
CPU group	Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (2)
Architecture	A12	Cortex-X3 / -A715 / -A510
Technology	7 nm	4 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket
Predecessor	Apple A11 Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
Successor	Apple A13 Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
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 Cortex-X3 3.36 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Tempest 1.59 GHz	4x Cortex-A715/A710 2.80 GHz
Core Cluster 3:		3x Cortex-A510 2.00 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB
L3-Cache		8.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
GPU name	Apple A12	Qualcomm Adreno 740
GPU frequency	1.13 GHz	0.68 GHz
CUs / Shader	16 / 256	/
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays	1	2
Max. GPU Memory	4 GB	6 GB
Technology	7 nm	4 nm
Release date	Q3/2018	Q4/2022

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	Qualcomm AI engine
AI specifications	8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS	Hexagon 780 @ 26 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)	LPDDR5X-8400 (67.0 GB/s)
Max. Memory	4 GB	24 GB
Memory channels	1	4
ECC	No	No
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
TDP	6 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
Chip design	Chiplet	Chiplet
AES-NI	✗	✗
Operating systems	iOS	Android, Windows 10/11 (ARM)
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	Armv9-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release date	Q3/2018	Q4/2022
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 8 Gen 2 has received 4.3 stars (337 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
8C / 8T · 3.36 GHz

★★★★★