Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
vs
Apple A12 Bionic

vs

SoC Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 and Apple A12 Bionic mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

  • Higher Technology: 5 nm (5 nm vs 7 nm)
  • Higher Frequency: 2840 MHz (2840 MHz vs 2490 MHz)
  • Newer Launch Date: December 2020 (December 2020 vs September 2018)

Basic

Qualcomm
Label Name
Apple
December 2020
Launch Date
September 2018
SmartPhone Flagship
Platform
SmartPhone Flagship
-
Manufacturing
TSMC
SM8350
Model Name
APL1W81
1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
Architecture
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
8
Cores
6
5 nm
Technology
7 nm
2840 MHz
Frequency
2490 MHz
-
Transistor count
6.9

GPU Specifications

Adreno 660
GPU name
Apple A12 GPU
840 MHz
GPU frequency
1125 MHz
1.72 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.576 TFLOPS
512
Shading units
64
2
Execution units
4
2.0
OpenCL version
2.0
1.1
Vulkan version
1.1
3840 x 2160
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
12
DirectX version
12

Connectivity

Up to 2500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1000 Mbps
LTE Cat. 22
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
-
5G support
No
5.2
Bluetooth
5.0
6
Wi-Fi
5
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Memory Specifications

LPDDR5
Memory type
LPDDR4X
3200 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Memory Bus
4x 16 Bit

Miscellaneous

1 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
1x 200MP, 2x 25MP
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
Storage type
NVMe
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
8K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
10 W
TDP
6 W
ARMv8.4-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.3-A
Hexagon 780
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine

Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 Single Core
Snapdragon 888
1481 +14%
A12 Bionic
1301
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Snapdragon 888
3794 +33%
A12 Bionic
2843
Geekbench 5 Single Core
Snapdragon 888
717
A12 Bionic
1102 +54%
Geekbench 5 Multi Core
Snapdragon 888
2413
A12 Bionic
2449 +1%
FP32 (float)
Snapdragon 888
1754 +198%
A12 Bionic
588