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Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm SM8250 Snapdragon 865 5G
Comparison of the technical characteristics between the processors, with the Apple A12 Bionic on one side and the Qualcomm SM8250 Snapdragon 865 5G on the other side. The first is dedicated to the smartphone sector, It has 6 cores, 6 threads, a maximum frequency of 2.5GHz. The second is used on the smartphone segment, it has a total of 8 cores, 8 threads, its turbo frequency is set to 2.8 GHz. The following table also compares the lithography, the number of transistors (if indicated), the amount of cache memory, the maximum RAM memory capacity, the type of memory accepted, the release date, the maximum number of PCIe lanes, the values obtained in Geekbench 4 and Cinebench R15.
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Specifications:
| Processor | Apple A12 Bionic | Qualcomm SM8250 Snapdragon 865 5G | ||||||
| Market (main) | Smartphone | Smartphone | ||||||
| ISA | ARMv8.3-A (64-bit) | ARMv8-A (64-bit) | ||||||
| Microarchitecture | Vortex, Tempest | Cortex-A77, Cortex-A55 | ||||||
| Core name | Vortex, Tempest | Kryo 585 Prime, Kryo 585 Gold, Kryo 585 Silver |
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| Family | A series | Snapdragon 800 | ||||||
| Part number(s), S-Spec | APL1W81 | SM8250, SDM865 | ||||||
| Release date | Q3 2018 | Q4 2019 | ||||||
| Lithography | 7 nm FinFET | 7 nm N7P | ||||||
| Transistors | 6,900,000,000 | - | ||||||
| Cores | 6 | 8 | ||||||
| Threads | 6 | 8 | ||||||
| Base frequency | 1.6 GHz | 1.8 GHz | ||||||
| Turbo frequency | 2.5 GHz | 2.8 GHz | ||||||
| Energy cores | 4x Apple Tempest @ 1.59 GHz | 4x Qualcomm Kryo 585 Silver @ 1.8 GHz | ||||||
| High performance cores | 2x Apple Vortex @ 2.49 GHz | 1x Qualcomm Kryo 585 Prime @ 2.84 GHz 3x Qualcomm Kryo 585 Gold @ 2.42 GHz |
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| Cache memory | 8 MB | 2 MB | ||||||
| Max memory capacity | 4 GB | 16 GB | ||||||
| Memory types | LPDDR4X-2133 | LPDDR4X-2133, LPDDR5-2750 | ||||||
| Max # of memory channels | 4 | 4 | ||||||
| Max memory bandwidth | 42.7 GB/s | 44 GB/s | ||||||
| TDP | 6 W | 10 W | ||||||
| GPU integrated graphics | Apple A12 Bionic GPU | Qualcomm Adreno 650 | ||||||
| GPU cores | 4 | - | ||||||
| GPU execution units | 32 | 2 | ||||||
| GPU shading units | 256 | 512 | ||||||
| GPU clock | 1,125 MHz | 587 MHz | ||||||
| GPU FP32 floating point | 576 GFLOPS | 1,250 GFLOPS | ||||||
| Socket | SoC | SoC | ||||||
| AI accelerator | Neural Engine 8-core | - | ||||||
| AI computing operations per seconds | 5 TOPS | - | ||||||
| AnTuTu | 368,880 | 558,510 | ||||||
| (iOS 64-bit | Android 64-bit) Geekbench 4 single core | 4,695 | 3,927 | ||||||
| (iOS 64-bit | Android 64-bit) Geekbench 4 multi-core | 10,985 | 12,548 | ||||||
| (iOS | Android) Geekbench 5 single core | 1,116 | 824 | ||||||
| (iOS | Android) Geekbench 5 multi-core | 2,567 | 3,069 | ||||||
| (SGEMM) GFLOPS performance | 134.6 GFLOPS | 122.38 GFLOPS | ||||||
| (Multi-core / watt performance) Performance / watt ratio | 1,831 pts / W | 1,255 pts / W | ||||||
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The processor Qualcomm SM8250 Snapdragon 865 5G has a larger number of cores, the turbo frequency of Qualcomm SM8250 Snapdragon 865 5G is bigger, that the PDT of Apple A12 Bionic is lower. The Qualcomm SM8250 Snapdragon 865 5G was started more recently.
Performances :
Performance comparison between the two processors, for this we consider the results generated on benchmark software such as Geekbench 4.
| AnTuTu - Total score | |
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Qualcomm SM8250 Snapdragon 865 5G |
558,510 |
| Apple A12 Bionic |
368,880 |
The difference is 51%.
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average of the performances got with these processors, you may get different results.
average of the performances got with these processors, you may get different results.
AnTuTu is one of the most popular apps in the world to evaluate and compare the power of a mobile device with the competition. It tests above all the power of calculation, the display of Web pages, the modeling of decorations in 3D, the management of the memory, the transfer of data.
| Geekbench 5 - Multi-core & single core score - Android & iOS | |
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| Qualcomm SM8250 Snapdragon 865 5G |
824 3,069 |
| Apple A12 Bionic |
1,116 2,567 |
In single core, the difference is 35%. In multi-core, the difference in terms of gap is 20%.
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average of the performances got with these processors, you may get different results.
average of the performances got with these processors, you may get different results.
Geekbench 5 is a software for measuring the performance of a computer system, for fixed devices, mobile devices, servers. This platform makes it possible to better compare the power of the CPU, the computing power and to compare it with similar or totally different systems. Geekbench 5 includes new workloads that represent work tasks and applications that we can find in reality.
Equivalence:
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