Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm SM8250 Snapdragon 865
Comparison of the technical characteristics between the processors, with the Apple A12 Bionic on one side and the Qualcomm SM8250 Snapdragon 865 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 |
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Qualcomm SM8250 Snapdragon 865 |
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Market | |
Smartphone |
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Smartphone |
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Family | |
A series |
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Snapdragon |
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Part number(s), S-Spec | |
APL1W81 |
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SM8250, SDM865 |
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Release date | |
Q3 2018 |
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Q4 2019 |
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Lithography | |
7 nm FinFET |
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7 nm N7P |
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Transistors | |
6,900,000,000 |
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- |
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Cores | |
6 |
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8 |
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Threads | |
6 |
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8 |
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Base frequency | |
1.6 GHz |
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1.8 GHz |
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Turbo frequency | |
2.5 GHz |
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2.8 GHz |
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Energy cores | |
4x Apple Tempest @ 1.59 GHz |
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4x Qualcomm Kryo 585 Silver @ 1.8 GHz |
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High performance cores | |
2x Apple Vortex @ 2.49 GHz |
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1x Qualcomm Kryo 585 Prime @ 2.84 GHz
3x Qualcomm Kryo 585 Gold @ 2.42 GHz |
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Cache memory | |
8 MB |
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2 MB |
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Max memory capacity | |
4 GB |
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16 GB |
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Memory types | |
LPDDR4X-2133 |
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LPDDR4X-2133, LPDDR5-2750 |
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Max # of memory channels | |
4 |
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4 |
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Max memory bandwidth | |
42.7 GB/s |
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44 GB/s |
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TDP | |
6 W |
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10 W |
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GPU integrated graphics | |
Apple A12 Bionic GPU |
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Qualcomm Adreno 650 |
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GPU execution units | |
4 |
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2 |
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GPU shading units | |
- |
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512 |
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GPU clock rate | |
- |
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587 MHz |
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GPU FP32 floating point | |
487.5 GFLOPS |
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1,250 GFLOPS |
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Socket | |
SoC |
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SoC |
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AnTuTu | |
368,880 |
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558,510 |
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(iOS 64-bit | Android 64-bit) Geekbench 4 single core | |
4,695 |
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3,927 |
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(iOS 64-bit | Android 64-bit) Geekbench 4 multi-core | |
10,985 |
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12,548 |
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(iOS | Android) Geekbench 5 single core | |
1,116 |
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824 |
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(iOS | Android) Geekbench 5 multi-core | |
2,567 |
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3,069 |
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(SGEMM) GFLOPS performance | |
134.6 GFLOPS |
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122.38 GFLOPS |
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(Multi-core / watt performance) Performance / watt ratio | |
1,831 pts / W |
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1,255 pts / W |
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We can better compare what are the technical differences between the two processors. The processor Qualcomm SM8250 Snapdragon 865 has a larger number of cores, the turbo frequency of Qualcomm SM8250 Snapdragon 865 is bigger, that the PDT of Apple A12 Bionic is lower. The Qualcomm SM8250 Snapdragon 865 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.
The difference is 51%.
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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.
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.
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:
Apple A12 Bionic Intel equivalentApple A12 Bionic AMD equivalentQualcomm SM8250 Snapdragon 865 Intel equivalentQualcomm SM8250 Snapdragon 865 AMD equivalentSmartphones with the processor Apple A12 Bionic:
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