Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 vs Apple A12 Bionic
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X43x 3.15 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.26 GHz – Cortex-A520
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Frequency
3300 MHz
2490 MHz
Cores
8
6
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8.3-A
L3 cache
0
—
Process
4 nm
7 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L1 cache
—
128 KB
L2 cache
—
0
Transistor count
—
6.9
TDP
—
6 W
Graphics
GPU name
Adreno 750
Apple A12 GPU
GPU frequency
903 MHz
1125 MHz
Execution units
2
4
Shading units
1536
64
Vulkan version
1.3
1.1
OpenCL version
2.0
2.0
DirectX version
12.1
12
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
4800 MHz
2133 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
77 Gbit/s
34.1 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon
Neural Engine
Storage type
UFS 4.0
NVMe
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
2688 x 1242
Max camera resolution
1x 200MP
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Video capture
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 18
5G support
Yes
No
Download speed
Up to 10000 Mbps
Up to 1000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Wi-Fi
7
5
Bluetooth
5.4
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Announced
Oct 2023
Sep 2018
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
SM8650-AB
APL1W81
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
2,079,542
643,548
Geekbench 6
2,181
1,301
Geekbench 6
7,250
2,843
FP32 (float)
4,730
576
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.