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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				Qualcomm SM8250 Snapdragon 865
Market		Smartphone				Smartphone
Family		A series				Snapdragon
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
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 execution units		4				2
GPU shading units		-				512
GPU clock rate		-				587 MHz
GPU FP32 floating point		487.5 GFLOPS				1,250 GFLOPS
Socket		SoC				SoC
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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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.

	AnTuTu - Total score
Qualcomm SM8250 Snapdragon 865#ad	558,510
Apple A12 Bionic#ad	368,880

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.

	Geekbench 5 - Multi-core & single core score - Android & iOS
Qualcomm SM8250 Snapdragon 865#ad	824 3,069
Apple A12 Bionic#ad	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.

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 equivalent

Smartphones with the processor Apple A12 Bionic:

Apple iPhone XRApple iPhone XSApple iPhone XS Max

Smartphones with the processor Qualcomm SM8250 Snapdragon 865:

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