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Apple A12Z Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A12Z Bionic
Rank 2 - 69 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
Multi-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A12Z Bionic
Rank 2 - 58 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

Apple A12Z Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
1,351
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
8C / 8T · 2.96 GHz
994
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Apple A12Z Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
4,798
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
8C / 8T · 2.96 GHz
2,397
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 855 Plus
8C / 8T · 2.96 GHz
731
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 855 Plus
8C / 8T · 2.96 GHz
2,632
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12Z Bionic
Apple A12Z
1,152
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
Qualcomm Adreno 640
1,037
AnTuTu 9 Benchmark

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
Multi-core performance

Apple A12Z Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
779,044 pts
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
8C / 8T · 2.96 GHz
558,430 pts
AnTuTu 8 Benchmark

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark

Apple A12Z Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
717,401 pts
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
8C / 8T · 2.96 GHz
487,155 pts
AI performance (NPU)

AI performance (NPU)

Apple A12Z Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
5.0 TOPS
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
8C / 8T · 2.96 GHz
7.0 TOPS

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Apple A12Z BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
FamilyApple A series (27)Qualcomm Snapdragon (105)
CPU groupApple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)Qualcomm Snapdragon 855/860 (3)
ArchitectureA12Kryo 485
Technology7 nm7 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletSmartphone / Tablet
Socket
PredecessorApple A10X Fusion
SuccessorQualcomm Snapdragon 860

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen
Apple A12Z BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
CPU Cores / Threads8 / 88 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1: 4x Vortex
2.49 GHz
1x Kryo 485 Prime
2.96 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 4x Tempest
1.59 GHz
3x Kryo 485 Gold
2.42 GHz
Core Cluster 3: 4x Kryo 485 Silver
1.80 GHz
L2-Cache8.00 MB2.00 MB
L3-Cache3.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Apple A12Z BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
GPU nameApple A12ZQualcomm Adreno 640
GPU frequency1.13 GHz0.25 - 0.68 GHz
CUs / Shader32 / 5124 / 384
Raytracing
Max. displays11
Max. GPU Memory6 GB4 GB
Technology7 nm7 nm
Release dateQ1/2020Q1/2019

NPU AI performance

Wischen
Apple A12Z BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
AI hardwareApple Neural EngineQualcomm AI engine
AI specifications8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPSHexagon 690 @ 7 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Apple A12Z BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
MemoryLPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)
LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory6 GB12 GB
Memory channels24
ECCNoNo
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen
Apple A12Z BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
TDP15 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen
Apple A12Z BionicQualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
Chip designChipletChiplet
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOSAndroid
Instruction setArmv8-A (64 bit)Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release dateQ1/2020Q4/2018
Release price
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

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Apple A12Z Bionic
Apple A12Z Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
8C / 8T · 2.96 GHz

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