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Apple A12Z Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 617

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A12Z Bionic
Rank 2 - 24 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon 617
Multi-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A12Z Bionic
Rank 2 - 22 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon 617
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

Apple A12Z Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
1,351
Qualcomm Snapdragon 617
8C / 8T · 1.50 GHz
301
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Apple A12Z Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
4,798
Qualcomm Snapdragon 617
8C / 8T · 1.50 GHz
867
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

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

Apple A12Z Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
1,124
Qualcomm Snapdragon 617
8C / 8T · 1.50 GHz
287
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

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

Apple A12Z Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
4,718
Qualcomm Snapdragon 617
8C / 8T · 1.50 GHz
1,176
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12Z Bionic
Apple A12Z
1,152
Qualcomm Snapdragon 617
Qualcomm Adreno 405
53

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Apple A12Z BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 617
FamilyApple A series (27)Qualcomm Snapdragon (105)
CPU groupApple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)Qualcomm Snapdragon 610 (4)
ArchitectureA12Cortex-A53
Technology7 nm28 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletSmartphone / Tablet
Socket
PredecessorApple A10X Fusion
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen
Apple A12Z BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 617
CPU Cores / Threads8 / 88 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1: 4x Vortex
2.49 GHz
4x Cortex-A53
1.50 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 4x Tempest
1.59 GHz
4x Cortex-A53
1.20 GHz
L2-Cache8.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen
Apple A12Z BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 617
GPU nameApple A12ZQualcomm Adreno 405
GPU frequency1.13 GHz0.55 - 0.55 GHz
CUs / Shader32 / 512 / 48
Raytracing
Max. displays10
Max. GPU Memory6 GB
Technology7 nm28 nm
Release dateQ1/2020Q1/2014

NPU AI performance

Wischen
Apple A12Z BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 617
AI hardwareApple Neural EngineQualcomm AI engine
AI specifications8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPSHexagon 546
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen
Apple A12Z BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 617
MemoryLPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)
LPDDR3-1866 (7.5 GB/s)
Max. Memory6 GB4 GB
Memory channels21
ECCNoNo
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen
Apple A12Z BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 617
TDP15 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen
Apple A12Z BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 617
Chip designChipletChiplet
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOSAndroid
Instruction setArmv8-A (64 bit)Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release dateQ1/2020Q4/2015
Release price
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

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Apple A12Z Bionic
Apple A12Z Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
Qualcomm Snapdragon 617
Qualcomm Snapdragon 617
8C / 8T · 1.50 GHz

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