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Apple A12X Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 850

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A12X Bionic
Rank 2 - 44 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon 850
Multi-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A12X Bionic
Rank 2 - 41 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon 850
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

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

Apple A12X Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
1,124
Qualcomm Snapdragon 850
8C / 8T · 2.95 GHz
489
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

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

Apple A12X Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
4,718
Qualcomm Snapdragon 850
8C / 8T · 2.95 GHz
1,953
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12X Bionic
Apple A12X
1,008
Qualcomm Snapdragon 850
Qualcomm Adreno 630
737

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Apple A12X BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 850
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 A10X Fusion
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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Apple A12X BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 850
CPU Cores / Threads8 / 88 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1: 4x Vortex
2.49 GHz
4x Kryo 385 Gold
2.95 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 A12X BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 850
GPU nameApple A12XQualcomm Adreno 630
GPU frequency1.13 GHz0.70 GHz
CUs / Shader28 / 448 / 256
Raytracing
Max. displays12
Max. GPU Memory6 GB8 GB
Technology7 nm10 nm
Release dateQ3/2018Q1/2018

NPU AI performance

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Apple A12X BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 850
AI hardwareApple Neural Engine
AI specifications8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Apple A12X BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 850
MemoryLPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)
LPDDR4X-3733 (29.8 GB/s)
Max. Memory6 GB8 GB
Memory channels24
ECCNoNo
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

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Apple A12X BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 850
TDP15 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

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Apple A12X BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 850
Chip designChipletChiplet
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOSAndroid
Instruction setArmv8-A (64 bit)Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release dateQ3/2018Q3/2018
Release price
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

Your rating

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Apple A12X Bionic
Apple A12X Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
Qualcomm Snapdragon 850
Qualcomm Snapdragon 850
8C / 8T · 2.95 GHz

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