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Apple A12X Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Last updated: 2026-07-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 62 %

Apple A12X Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 71 %

Apple A12X Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,341

8C / 8T · 3.40 GHz

2,293

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,745

8C / 8T · 3.40 GHz

7,117

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

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,124

8C / 8T · 3.40 GHz

1,701

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

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,718

8C / 8T · 3.40 GHz

6,280

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12X

1,008

Qualcomm Adreno 750

2,287

AI performance (NPU)

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

5.0 TOPS

8C / 8T · 3.40 GHz

34.0 TOPS

More benchmarks

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

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 A12X Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
Family	Apple A series (27)	Qualcomm Snapdragon (105)
CPU group	Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (2)
Architecture	A12
Technology	7 nm	4 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket
Predecessor	Apple A10X Fusion	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
Successor		Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A12X Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x Vortex 2.49 GHz	1x Cortex-X4 3.40 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Tempest 1.59 GHz	5x Cortex-A720 2.96 - 3.15 GHz
Core Cluster 3:		2x Cortex-A520 2.27 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB
L3-Cache		12.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A12X Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
GPU name	Apple A12X	Qualcomm Adreno 750
GPU frequency	1.13 GHz	0.90 GHz
CUs / Shader	28 / 448	/
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays	1	2
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB	6 GB
Technology	7 nm	4 nm
Release date	Q3/2018	Q4/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A12X Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	Qualcomm AI engine
AI specifications	8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS	Hexagon NPU @ 34 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A12X Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)	LPDDR5X-9600 (76.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	6 GB	24 GB
Memory channels	2	4
ECC	No	No
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A12X Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
TDP	15 W	12.5 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A12X Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
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	Q4/2023
Release price		190 $
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple A12X Bionic is 4.2 stars (82 ratings), while Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has received 4.2 stars (483 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A12X Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
8C / 8T · 3.40 GHz

★★★★★