Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1

Compared 2 processors: Apple A12 Bionic, vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Apple A12 Bionic and Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
Processor Performance
Single-Core Benchmark Score
Gaming Performance
Graphics and OpenCL/Vulkan tests
Energy Efficiency
Chip Power Efficiency
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
AnTuTu 10
AnTuTu 10
Apple A12 Bionic
700191
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
676837
CPU198067207306
GPU185355171454
Memory152138166898
UX164631131179
NanoReview Score700191676837
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Apple A12 Bionic
5205
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
3166
Stability69 %n/a
Graphics Test31 fps18 fps
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple A12 Bionic
1292
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
964
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple A12 Bionic
2837
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
2761
File Compression108.3 MB/s130.3 MB/s
HTML5 Browser61.7 pages/s71.4 pages/s
PDF Rendering78.6 MP/sec101.8 MP/sec
Background Blur10.6 frames/s10.5 frames/s
Photo Processing36.4 frames/s25 frames/s
Image Detection21.4 frames/s51.3 frames/s
HDR89.6 MP/sec84.1 MP/sec
Ray Tracing3.35 MP/sec3.49 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 2/2.49 (Vortex)
- 4/1.6 (Tempest)
- 1/2.4 (Cortex-A710)
- 3/2.36 (Cortex-A710)
- 4/1.8 (Cortex-A510)
Process TSMC Samsung
Cores count 6 8
Frequency 2490 2400
Instruction set ARMv8.3-A n/a
L1 cache 128 KB n/a
L2 cache 8 MB 3 MB
Process tech. 7 nm 4 nm
Transistor count 6.9 billion n/a
Power (TDP) 6 W 5 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Apple A12 GPU Adreno 644
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU Adreno 600
GPU Frequency 1125 MHz 443 MHz
Execution Units 4 3
Shader Units 64 384
Total shader 256 768
FLOPS 576 GFLOPS 680.4 GFLOPS
Vulkan n/a 1.1
OpenCL n/a 2.0
DirectX n/a 12.1

AI Acceleration

Specifications of the neural processor (NPU / DSP) responsible for machine learning and AI acceleration tasks.
Artificial Intelligence Neural Engine Hexagon

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
Memory Frequency 2133 MHz 3200 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 2x16 bit
Bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 25.6 Gbit/s
Max RAM 4 GB 16 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type NVMe UFS 3.1
Max. resolution 2688x1242 pixels 2560x1600 pixels
Camera 1x32 pixels 1x200 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- Motion JPEG
- H.264
- H.265
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AAC‑LC
- AAX и AAX+
- Apple Lossless
- HE‑AAC
- HE‑AAC v2
- Linear PCM
- MP3
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem Intel XMM 7560 Snapdragon X62
4G Support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
5G Support No Yes
Download speed Up to 1000 MB/s Up to 4400 MB/s
Upload speed Up to 350 MB/s Up to 1600 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 5 6
Bluetooth version 5.0 5.3
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- SBAS
- NAVIC

Other

Announced September, 2018 yr May, 2022 yr
Class Flagship Mid-range
Codename APL1W81 SM7450-AB

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