Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs Apple A12 Bionic
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Frequency
2342 MHz
2490 MHz
Cores
4
6
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv8.3-A
L1 cache
64 KB
128 KB
L2 cache
0
0
Process
14 nm
7 nm
Transistor count
2
6.9
TDP
11 W
6 W
Manufacturing
Samsung
TSMC
Graphics
GPU name
Adreno 530
Apple A12 GPU
GPU frequency
653 MHz
1125 MHz
Execution units
1
4
Shading units
256
64
Vulkan version
1.0
1.1
OpenCL version
2.0
2.0
DirectX version
11
12
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR4
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
1866 MHz
2133 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
29.8 Gbit/s
34.1 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 680
Neural Engine
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0
NVMe
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
2688 x 1242
Max camera resolution
1x 28MP, 2x 13MP
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
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. 12
LTE Cat. 18
5G support
No
No
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
Up to 1000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Wi-Fi
5
5
Bluetooth
4.1
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Announced
Aug 2016
Sep 2018
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
MSM8996 Pro-AC
APL1W81
Benchmark
Geekbench 6
391
1,301
Geekbench 6
797
2,843
FP32 (float)
334
576
AnTuTu 10
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643,548
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.