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Apple A12Z Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus 5G

Last updated: 2026-07-01

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A12Z Bionic

Rank 2 - 57 %

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus 5G

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A12Z Bionic

Rank 2 - 39 %

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus 5G

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,351

8C / 8T · 2.20 GHz

892

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,798

8C / 8T · 2.20 GHz

2,011

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

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,124

8C / 8T · 2.20 GHz

541

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

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,718

8C / 8T · 2.20 GHz

1,695

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12Z

1,152

Qualcomm Adreno 619

536

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

779,044 pts

8C / 8T · 2.20 GHz

315,497 pts

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

717,401 pts

8C / 8T · 2.20 GHz

273,594 pts

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 9 Benchmark
90 entries

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus 5G
Family	Apple A series (27)	Qualcomm Snapdragon (105)
CPU group	Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)	Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 (2)
Architecture	A12	Kryo 460
Technology	7 nm	8 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket
Predecessor	Apple A10X Fusion
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus 5G
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	4x Vortex 2.49 GHz	8x Kryo 460 Gold 2.20 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Tempest 1.59 GHz	6x Kryo 460 Silver 1.80 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus 5G
GPU name	Apple A12Z	Qualcomm Adreno 619
GPU frequency	1.13 GHz	0.95 GHz
CUs / Shader	32 / 512	/ 128
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	1	2
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB	4 GB
Technology	7 nm	8 nm
Release date	Q1/2020	Q2/2020

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus 5G
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus 5G
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (17.0 GB/s)
Max. Memory	6 GB	8 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus 5G
TDP	15 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus 5G
Chip design	Chiplet	Chiplet
AES-NI	✗	✗
Operating systems	iOS	Android
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release date	Q1/2020	Q4/2021
Release price
Documents

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple A12Z Bionic is 4.2 stars (87 ratings), while Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus 5G has received 4.6 stars (10 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A12Z Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus 5G
8C / 8T · 2.20 GHz

★★★★★