Snapdragon 888 vs A12 Bionic
We compared the 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 (Adreno 660) with the older 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 888
- Performs 2.8x better in floating-point computations
- Supports 50% higher memory bandwidth (51.2 against 34.1 GB/s)
- Announced 2-years and 3-months later
- Has a smaller size transistor (5 versus 7 nm)
- Shows better (up to 36%) AnTuTu 10 score – 873K vs 643K
- Has 2 more cores
- 14% higher CPU clock speed (2840 vs 2490 MHz)
- Better instruction set architecture
Pros of Apple A12 Bionic
- Higher GPU frequency (~42%)
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Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 10
| CPU | 226598 | 180501 |
| GPU | 267817 | 203202 |
| Memory | 168662 | 123963 |
| UX | 208948 | 132209 |
| Total score | 873545 | 643688 |
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 | - | 108.3 MB/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | - | 61.7 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | - | 78.6 Mpixels/sec |
| Image detection | - | 21.4 images/sec |
| HDR | - | 89.6 Mpixels/sec |
| Background blur | - | 10.6 images/sec |
| Photo processing | - | 36.4 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | - | 3.35 Mpixels/sec |
Compute Score (GPU)
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3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | 91% | 69% |
| Graphics test | 30 FPS | 31 FPS |
| Score | 5037 | 5207 |
Gaming
| PUBG Mobile | 83 FPS [Ultra] |
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| Call of Duty: Mobile | 60 FPS [Ultra] |
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| Fortnite | 26 FPS [Ultra] |
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| Shadowgun Legends | 89 FPS [Ultra] |
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| World of Tanks Blitz | 112 FPS [Ultra] |
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| Genshin Impact | 58 FPS [Ultra] |
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| Mobile Legends: Bang Bang | 60 FPS [Ultra] |
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| Device | Asus Zenfone 8 1080 x 2400 |
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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 888 and A12 BionicCPU
| Architecture | 1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1) 3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78) 4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55) |
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex 4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest |
| Cores | 8 | 6 |
| Frequency | 2840 MHz | 2490 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8.4-A | ARMv8.3-A |
| L1 cache | 512 KB | 128 KB |
| L2 cache | 1 MB | 8 MB |
| L3 cache | 4 MB | - |
| Process | 5 nanometers | 7 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 10.3 billion | 6.9 billion |
| TDP | 8 W | 6 W |
| Manufacturing | Samsung | TSMC |
Graphics
| GPU name | Adreno 660 | Apple A12 GPU |
| Architecture | Adreno 600 | Apple GPU |
| GPU frequency | 792 MHz | 1125 MHz |
| Execution units | 2 | 4 |
| Shading units | 512 | 64 |
| Total shaders | 1024 | 256 |
| FLOPS | 1622 Gigaflops | 576 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.1 | - |
| OpenCL version | 2.0 | - |
| DirectX version | 12.1 | - |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR5 | LPDDR4X |
| Memory frequency | 3200 MHz | 2133 MHz |
| Bus | 4x 16 Bit | 4x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 51.2 Gbit/s | 34.1 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 24 GB | 4 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Hexagon 780 | Neural Engine |
| 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 | 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP |
| Video capture | 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS | 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 | AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3 |
Connectivity
| Modem | X60 | Intel XMM 7560 |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 22 | LTE Cat. 18 |
| 5G support | Yes | No |
| Download speed | Up to 7500 Mbps | Up to 1000 Mbps |
| Upload speed | Up to 3000 Mbps | Up to 350 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 5.2 | 5.0 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo |
Info
| Announced | December 2020 | September 2018 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | SM8350 | APL1W81 |
| Official page | Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 official site | - |
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