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Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 vs Apple A12Z Bionic

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 2 - 69 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A12Z Bionic
Multi-core performance
Rank 2 - 63 %
Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A12Z Bionic
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
8C / 8T · 2.96 GHz
972
Apple A12Z Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
1,351
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
8C / 8T · 2.96 GHz
2,634
Apple A12Z Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
4,798
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
8C / 8T · 2.96 GHz
733
Apple A12Z Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
1,124
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
8C / 8T · 2.96 GHz
2,698
Apple A12Z Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
4,718
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
Qualcomm Adreno 640
1,037
Apple A12Z Bionic
Apple A12Z
1,152
AnTuTu 9 Benchmark

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
Multi-core performance

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
8C / 8T · 2.96 GHz
542,771 pts
Apple A12Z Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
779,044 pts
AnTuTu 8 Benchmark

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
8C / 8T · 2.96 GHz
560,128 pts
Apple A12Z Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
717,401 pts
AI performance (NPU)

AI performance (NPU)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
8C / 8T · 2.96 GHz
7.0 TOPS
Apple A12Z Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
5.0 TOPS

More benchmarks

At a glance

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 860Apple A12Z Bionic
FamilyQualcomm Snapdragon (105)Apple A series (27)
CPU groupQualcomm Snapdragon 855/860 (3)Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)
ArchitectureKryo 485A12
Technology7 nm7 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletSmartphone / Tablet
Socket
PredecessorQualcomm Snapdragon 855 PlusApple A10X Fusion
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 860Apple A12Z Bionic
CPU Cores / Threads8 / 88 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturehybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1: 1x Kryo 485 Prime
2.96 GHz
4x 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-Cache2.00 MB8.00 MB
L3-Cache3.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 860Apple A12Z Bionic
GPU nameQualcomm Adreno 640Apple A12Z
GPU frequency0.25 - 0.68 GHz1.13 GHz
CUs / Shader4 / 38432 / 512
Raytracing
Max. displays11
Max. GPU Memory4 GB6 GB
Technology7 nm7 nm
Release dateQ1/2019Q1/2020

NPU AI performance

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 860Apple A12Z Bionic
AI hardwareQualcomm AI engineApple Neural Engine
AI specificationsHexagon 690 @ 7 TOPS8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 860Apple A12Z Bionic
MemoryLPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory16 GB6 GB
Memory channels42
ECCNoNo
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 860Apple A12Z Bionic
TDP15 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 860Apple A12Z Bionic
Chip designChipletChiplet
AES-NI
Operating systemsAndroidiOS
Instruction setArmv8-A (64 bit)Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release dateQ1/2021Q1/2020
Release price
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
8C / 8T · 2.96 GHz
Apple A12Z Bionic
Apple A12Z Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

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