Snapdragon 625 vs A12 Bionic
We compared the 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 (Adreno 506) with the newer 6-core Apple A12 Bionic (Apple A12 GPU) SoC. Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulkan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
NanoReview Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 625
- Has 2 more cores
Pros of Apple A12 Bionic
- Performs 9.2x better in floating-point computations
- Supports 357% higher memory bandwidth (34.1 against 7.46 GB/s)
- Shows significantly better (up to 4.1x) AnTuTu 11 score – 895K vs 218K
- Has a smaller size transistor (7 versus 14 nm)
- Higher GPU frequency (~73%)
- 25% higher CPU clock speed (2490 vs 2000 MHz)
- Better instruction set architecture
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 11
| CPU | 93844 | 309104 |
| GPU | 14096 | 144993 |
| Memory | 46390 | 139578 |
| UX | 64549 | 301952 |
| Total score | 218879 | 895627 |
| Samples | Less than 3 | Less than 3 |
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect NanoReview scores.
GeekBench 6
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Asset compression | 62.9 MB/sec | 116.8 MB/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 27.2 pages/sec | 59.4 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 27.4 Mpixels/sec | 71.7 Mpixels/sec |
| Image detection | 9.55 images/sec | 23.7 images/sec |
| HDR | 26.5 Mpixels/sec | 98.7 Mpixels/sec |
| Background blur | 1.19 images/sec | 11.2 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 6.81 images/sec | 36.1 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 1.67 Mpixels/sec | 3.49 Mpixels/sec |
| Samples | 3 tests | 5 tests |
Compute Score (GPU)
| Background blur | - | 16.1 images/sec |
| Face detection | - | 19.2 images/sec |
| Horizon detection | - | 0.26 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge detection | - | 0.39 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian blur | - | 0.73 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature matching | - | 0.12 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo matching | - | 24.1 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle physics | - | 608.2 FPS |
| API | - | Metal |
| Samples | - | Less than 3 |
Compute results use different APIs (Metal vs Vulkan/OpenCL) and are not directly comparable!
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
| Score | - | 1482 |
| Stability | - | 65% |
| Graphics test | - | 8 FPS |
PCMark 3.0
PCMark 3.0
| Web score | 4980 | - |
| Video editing score | 5558 | - |
| Data manipulation score | 3713 | - |
| Photo editing score | 7746 | - |
| Writing score | 4130 | - |
Recent User Tests
Qualcomm Snapdragon 625
No benchmark results yet
Apple A12 Bionic
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-09-16 -> op1 | Geekbench 6 CPU | 1344 / 4757 |
| 📘 2026-07-31 (Дима) | AnTuTu 11 | 644981 |
| 📘 2026-06-27 -> USAball386 | Geekbench 6 GPU | 7868 |
| 📘 2026-06-27 -> USAball386 | Geekbench 6 CPU | 1306 / 2770 |
| 📘 2026-05-12 -> Giahuy | AnTuTu 11 | 756483 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Snapdragon 625 and A12 BionicCPU
| Architecture | 8x 2 GHz – Cortex-A53 | 2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex 4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest |
| Cores | 8 | 6 |
| Frequency | 2000 MHz | 2490 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8-A | ARMv8.3-A |
| L1 cache | - | 128 KB |
| L2 cache | - | 8 MB |
| Process | 14 nanometers | 7 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 2 billion | 6.9 billion |
| TDP (Sustained Power Limit) | 5 W | 6 W |
| Manufacturing | Samsung | TSMC |
Graphics
| GPU name | Adreno 506 | Apple A12 GPU |
| Architecture | Adreno 500 | Apple Bionic GPU |
| GPU frequency | 650 MHz | 1125 MHz |
| Pipelines | 1 | 4 |
| Shading units | 48 | 64 |
| Total shaders | 48 | 256 |
| FLOPS | 62.4 Gigaflops | 576 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.0 | - |
| OpenCL version | 2.0 | - |
| DirectX version | 11 | - |
AI Accelerator
| Neural processor (NPU) | Hexagon 546 | Neural Engine |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR3 | LPDDR4X |
| Memory frequency | 933 MHz | 2133 MHz |
| Bus | 1x 32 Bit | 4x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 7.46 Gb/s | 34.1 Gb/s |
| Max size | 8 GB | 4 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Storage type | eMMC 5.1 | NVMe |
| Max display resolution | 1900 x 1200 | 2688 x 1242 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 24MP, 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 |
- H.264 - H.265 - Motion JPEG |
| Audio codecs | - AIFF - CAF - MP3 - MP4 - WAV |
- AAC - AAC‑LC - AAX и AAX+ - Apple Lossless - HE‑AAC - HE‑AAC v2 - Linear PCM - MP3 |
Connectivity
| Modem | X9 | Intel XMM 7560 |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 7 | LTE Cat. 18 |
| 5G support | No | No |
| Download speed | Up to 300 Mbps | Up to 1000 Mbps |
| Upload speed | Up to 150 Mbps | Up to 350 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 5 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 4.2 | 5.0 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo |
Info
| Announced | February 2016 | September 2018 |
| Class | Mid range | Flagship |
| Model number | MSM8953 | APL1W81 |
| Official page | Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 official site | - |
| Successor | - | - Apple A19 Pro |
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