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Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus vs Apple A12 Bionic

Last updated: 2026-03-01

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 71 %

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A12 Bionic

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A12 Bionic

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.96 GHz

994

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

1,286

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.96 GHz

2,397

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

2,353

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

8C / 8T · 2.96 GHz

731

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

1,116

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

8C / 8T · 2.96 GHz

2,632

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

2,731

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Qualcomm Adreno 640

1,037

Apple A12

576

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark

8C / 8T · 2.96 GHz

487,155 pts

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

425,605 pts

AI performance (NPU)

8C / 8T · 2.96 GHz

7.0 TOPS

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

5.0 TOPS

More benchmarks

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	Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus	Apple A12 Bionic
Family	Qualcomm Snapdragon (105)	Apple A series (27)
CPU group	Qualcomm Snapdragon 855/860 (3)	Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)
Architecture	Kryo 485	A12
Technology	7 nm	7 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket
Predecessor		Apple A11 Bionic
Successor	Qualcomm Snapdragon 860	Apple A13 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus	Apple A12 Bionic
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	6 / 6
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	1x Kryo 485 Prime 2.96 GHz	2x Vortex 2.49 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	3x Kryo 485 Gold 2.42 GHz	4x Tempest 1.59 GHz
Core Cluster 3:	4x Kryo 485 Silver 1.80 GHz
L2-Cache	2.00 MB	8.00 MB
L3-Cache	3.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus	Apple A12 Bionic
GPU name	Qualcomm Adreno 640	Apple A12
GPU frequency	0.25 - 0.68 GHz	1.13 GHz
CUs / Shader	4 / 384	16 / 256
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	1	1
Max. GPU Memory	4 GB	4 GB
Technology	7 nm	7 nm
Release date	Q1/2019	Q3/2018

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus	Apple A12 Bionic
AI hardware	Qualcomm AI engine	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	Hexagon 690 @ 7 TOPS	8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus	Apple A12 Bionic
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory	12 GB	4 GB
Memory channels	4	1
ECC	No	No
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus	Apple A12 Bionic
TDP		6 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus	Apple A12 Bionic
Chip design	Chiplet	Chiplet
AES-NI	✗	✗
Operating systems	Android	iOS
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release date	Q4/2018	Q3/2018
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus is 4.8 stars (10 ratings), while Apple A12 Bionic has received 3.4 stars (106 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
8C / 8T · 2.96 GHz

★★★★★

Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★