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Apple A12Z Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

Last updated: 2026-05-04

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 - 92 %

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A12Z Bionic

Rank 2 - 78 %

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,351

8C / 8T · 2.84 GHz

1,174

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,798

8C / 8T · 2.84 GHz

3,151

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

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,124

8C / 8T · 2.84 GHz

1,088

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

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,718

8C / 8T · 2.84 GHz

3,250

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12Z

1,152

Qualcomm Adreno 660

1,720

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

779,044 pts

8C / 8T · 2.84 GHz

816,812 pts

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

717,401 pts

8C / 8T · 2.84 GHz

715,600 pts

AI performance (NPU)

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

5.0 TOPS

8C / 8T · 2.84 GHz

26.0 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 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 A12Z Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
Family	Apple A series (27)	Qualcomm Snapdragon (105)
CPU group	Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)	Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 (2)
Architecture	A12	Kryo 680
Technology	7 nm	5 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket
Predecessor	Apple A10X Fusion
Successor		Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
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 Kryo 680 Prime 2.84 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Tempest 1.59 GHz	3x Kryo 680 Gold 2.42 GHz
Core Cluster 3:		4x Kryo 680 Silver 1.80 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB	1.00 MB
L3-Cache		8.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
GPU name	Apple A12Z	Qualcomm Adreno 660
GPU frequency	1.13 GHz	0.84 GHz
CUs / Shader	32 / 512	/
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	1	0
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB
Technology	7 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q1/2020	Q1/2021

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	Qualcomm AI engine
AI specifications	8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS	Hexagon 780 @ 26 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (51.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	6 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	2	4
ECC	No	No
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
TDP	15 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
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	Q1/2021
Release price
Documents		Technical data sheet

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 (84 ratings), while Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 has received 3.8 stars (162 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A12Z Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
8C / 8T · 2.84 GHz

★★★★★