Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 vs Apple A12 Bionic

Compared 2 processors: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, vs Apple A12 Bionic. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and Apple A12 Bionic
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
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
1169574
Apple A12 Bionic
700191
CPU315665198067
GPU426818185355
Memory192834152138
UX234257164631
NanoReview Score1169574700191
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
6718
Apple A12 Bionic
5205
Stabilityn/a69 %
Graphics Test40 fps31 fps
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
1661
Apple A12 Bionic
1292
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
4002
Apple A12 Bionic
2837
File Compression154.9 MB/s108.3 MB/s
HTML5 Browser112.7 pages/s61.7 pages/s
PDF Rendering147.2 MP/sec78.6 MP/sec
Background Blur13.8 frames/s10.6 frames/s
Photo Processing36.3 frames/s36.4 frames/s
Image Detection94 frames/s21.4 frames/s
HDR122 MP/sec89.6 MP/sec
Ray Tracing4.39 MP/sec3.35 MP/sec

Games

Graphics in popular 3D games
PUBGPUBG Mobile 88 FPS (Ultra) n/a
CODCall of Duty: Mobile 60 FPS (Ultra) n/a
FortniteFortnite 42 FPS (Ultra) n/a
Shadow LegendsShadowgun Legends 89 FPS (Ultra) n/a
World of Tanks BlitzWorld of Tanks Blitz 114 FPS (Ultra) n/a
Genshin ImpactMobile Legends: Bang Bang 40 FPS (Ultra) n/a
Device Xiaomi Poco F4 GT (1080x2400) n/a

Processor

Architecture - 1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X2
- 3x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A710
- 4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
- 2/2.49 (Vortex)
- 4/1.6 (Tempest)
Process Samsung TSMC
Cores count 8 6
Frequency 3000 2490
Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.3-A
L1 cache n/a 128 KB
L2 cache 1 MB 8 MB
L3 Cache 6 MB n/a
Process tech. 4 nm 7 nm
Transistor count n/a 6.9 billion
Power (TDP) 5.3 W 6 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Adreno 730 Apple A12 GPU
Architecture Adreno 700 Apple Bionic GPU
GPU Frequency 818 MHz 1125 MHz
Execution Units 2 4
Shader Units 512 64
Total shader 1024 256
FLOPS 1675.3 GFLOPS 576 GFLOPS
Vulkan 1.1 n/a
OpenCL 2.0 n/a
DirectX 12.1 n/a

AI Acceleration

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

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
Memory Frequency 3200 MHz 2133 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 34.1 Gbit/s
Max RAM 24 GB 4 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type UFS 3.1 NVMe
Max. resolution 3840x2160 pixels 2688x1242 pixels
Camera 1x200 pixels 1x32 pixels
Video recording 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video quality 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP8
- VP9
- H.264
- H.265
- Motion JPEG
Audio codecs - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AAC‑LC
- AAX и AAX+
- Apple Lossless
- HE‑AAC
- HE‑AAC v2
- Linear PCM
- MP3

Connectivity

Modem Snapdragon X65 Intel XMM 7560
4G Support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
5G Support Yes No
Download speed Up to 10000 MB/s Up to 1000 MB/s
Upload speed Up to 3670 MB/s Up to 350 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 6 5
Bluetooth version 5.3 5.0
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- SBAS
- NAVIC
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo

Other

Announced December, 2021 yr September, 2018 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename SM8450 APL1W81

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 the clear winner in this comparison.

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