Snapdragon 865 Plus vs A12 Bionic
We compared the 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus (Adreno 650) with the older 6-core Apple A12 Bionic (Apple A12 Bionic 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/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
NanoReview Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus
- Performs 2.4x better in floating-point computations
- Shows significantly better (up to 50%) AnTuTu 8 score – 615K vs 408K
- Announced 1-year and 10-months later
- Has 2 more cores
- Supports 29% higher memory bandwidth (44 against 34.1 GB/s)
- 24% higher CPU clock speed (3100 vs 2490 MHz)
Pros of Apple A12 Bionic
- Better instruction set architecture
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 8
| CPU | 17849 | 129259 |
| GPU | 236287 | 148052 |
| Memory | 98253 | 56934 |
| UX | 99657 | 63018 |
| Total score | 615343 | 408884 |
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | - | 131.35 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | - | 17.45 images/s |
| Speech recognition | - | 70.4 words/s |
| Machine learning | - | 58.9 images/s |
| Camera shooting | - | 17.75 images/s |
| HTML 5 | - | 3.17 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | - | 670.45 Krows/s |
Gaming
| PUBG Mobile | 74 FPS [Ultra] |
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| Call of Duty: Mobile | 60 FPS [Ultra] |
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| Fortnite | 28 FPS [Ultra] |
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| World of Tanks Blitz | 104 FPS [Ultra] |
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| Genshin Impact | 56 FPS [Ultra] |
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| Mobile Legends: Bang Bang | 60 FPS [High] |
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| Device | Asus ROG Phone 3 1080 x 2340 |
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We provide average results. FPS may differ, depending on game version, OS and other factors.
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Snapdragon 865 Plus and A12 BionicCPU
| Architecture | 1x 3.1 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77) 3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77) 4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55) |
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex 4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest |
| Cores | 8 | 6 |
| Frequency | 3100 MHz | 2490 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8.2-A | ARMv8.3-A |
| L1 cache | 512 KB | 128 KB |
| L2 cache | 1 MB | 8 MB |
| L3 cache | 4 MB | - |
| Process | 7 nanometers | 7 nanometers |
| Transistor count | - | 6.9 billion |
| TDP | 10 W | 6 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Adreno 650 | Apple A12 Bionic GPU |
| Architecture | Adreno 600 | - |
| GPU frequency | 645 MHz | - |
| Execution units | 2 | 4 |
| Shading units | 512 | - |
| FLOPS | 1365 Gigaflops | 560 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.1 | 1.1 |
| OpenCL version | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | 12 | 12 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR5 | LPDDR4X |
| Memory frequency | 2750 MHz | 2133 MHz |
| Bus | 4x 16 Bit | 1x 64 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 44 Gbit/s | 34.1 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 16 GB | 12 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Hexagon 698 | Yes |
| Storage type | UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 | NVMe |
| Max display resolution | 3840 x 2160 | 2688 x 1242 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP | 2x 12MP |
| Video capture | 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video playback | 8K at 30FPS | 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 | Protected AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3 |
Connectivity
| Modem | X55 | - |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 24 | LTE Cat. 18 |
| 5G support | Yes | No |
| Download speed | Up to 2500 Mbps | Up to 1000 Mbps |
| Upload speed | Up to 316 Mbps | Up to 150 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 5.2 | 5.0 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC | GPS, GLONASS, Galileo |
Info
| Announced | July 2020 | September 2018 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | SM8250-AB | - |
| Official page | Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus official site | - |
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