Apple A12 Bionic vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (97/100)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 leads overall with a score of 97/100 compared to Apple A12 Bionic (45/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5:
  • + Higher DeviceBenchmark Score score (97 vs 45)
  • + Higher Performance score (99 vs 43)
Apple A12 Bionic
Apple

Apple A12 Bionic

45/100
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[ WINNER ]
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Qualcomm

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

97/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple A12 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
DeviceBenchmark Score 45.0 Poor 97.0 Excellent WINNER
Performance 43.0 Poor 99.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple A12 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Graphics test 8 FPS 20 FPS
Stability 65% 67%
Section 1 — 52 FPS
Section 2 — 46 FPS
Section 3 — 40 FPS

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple A12 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Hexagon

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A12 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
CPU 309104 1112833
GPU 144993 1494722
Memory 139578 442350
Total score 895627 3950082
UX 301952 900177

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple A12 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Architecture 2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest 2x 4.61 GHz – Oryon Gen 3 Prime6x 3.63 GHz – Oryon Gen 3 Performance
Cores 6 8
Frequency 2490 MHz 4610 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.3-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 128 KB 192 KB
L2 cache 8 MB 12 MB
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Process 7 nanometers 3 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 6 W —
Transistor count 6.9 billion —
L3 cache — 12 MB

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple A12 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
5G support No Yes
Bluetooth 5.0 6.0
Download speed Up to 1000 Mbps Up to 12500 Mbps
Modem Intel XMM 7560 Snapdragon X85
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Upload speed Up to 350 Mbps Up to 3700 Mbps
Wi-Fi 5 7

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A12 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
API Metal Vulkan
Asset compression 116.8 MB/sec 421.8 MB/sec
Background blur 11.2 images/sec 40.7 images/sec
Edge detection 0.39 Gpixels/sec 1 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 19.2 images/sec 24.9 images/sec
Feature matching 0.12 Gpixels/sec 0.36 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 0.73 Gpixels/sec 2.04 Gpixels/sec
HDR 98.7 Mpixels/sec 308.4 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 59.4 pages/sec 238 pages/sec
Horizon detection 0.26 Gpixels/sec 0.72 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 23.7 images/sec 330.6 images/sec
PDF Renderer 71.7 Mpixels/sec 286.6 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 608.2 FPS 4390.2 FPS
Photo processing 36.1 images/sec 98.7 images/sec
Ray tracing 3.49 Mpixels/sec 14.1 Mpixels/sec
Samples 5 tests 79 tests
Stereo matching 24.1 Gpixels/sec 115.4 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple A12 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
FLOPS 576 Gigaflops 3686.4 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1125 MHz 1200 MHz
Pipelines 4 3
Shading units 64 512
Total shaders 256 1536
DirectX version — 12.1
OpenCL version — 3.0
Vulkan version — 1.4

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple A12 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Announced September 2018 September 2025
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number APL1W81 SM8850-AC
Successor -Apple A19 Pro —
Official page — Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 official site

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple A12 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 34.1 Gb/s 84.8 Gb/s
Max size 4 GB 24 GB
Memory frequency 2133 MHz 5300 MHz
Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple A12 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Audio codecs - AAC- AAC‑LC- AAX and AAX+- Apple Lossless- HE‑AAC- HE‑AAC v2- Linear PCM- MP3 - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max camera resolution 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP 1x 320MP
Max display resolution 2688 x 1242 3840 x 2540
Storage type NVMe UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- Motion JPEG - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple A12 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-03-17(Hoangg Anhh) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-03-22(Jai) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-05-02(sp_ayz1) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-05-05(Jarukit) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-05-12->Giahuy AnTuTu —
📘 2026-06-27->USAball386 GeekBench GPU —
📘 2026-07-31(Димa) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-19->2295031556Leon — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-21(Ilya) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-24(q_l8) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-24->Ang3L4D — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-25(Edwin3q) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-25(Hüseyn Alizade) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-25(erosado-pr) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-25(freqr) — AnTuTu

Smartphones

Smartphones specifications comparison
Specification Apple A12 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
1.Apple iPhone XS Max 842172 —
2.Apple iPhone XR 762903 —
3.Apple iPhone XS 756483 —
Phones with A12 Bionic AnTuTu v11 —
1.ZTE Nubia Red Magic 11S Pro Plus — 4716234
10.Honor Magic 8 — 4037547
2.ZTE Nubia Red Magic 11S Pro — 4678468
3.Vivo iQOO 15 Ultra — 4602290
4.Vivo X300 Ultra — 4247433
5.ZTE Nubia Red Magic 11 Pro Plus — 4244509
6.Oppo Find X9 Ultra — 4231988
7.Honor Robot Phone — 4166339
8.Honor Magic V6 — 4166339
9.ZTE Nubia Red Magic 11 Pro — 4117238
Phones with Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 — AnTuTu v11

PCMark 3.0

PCMark 3.0 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A12 Bionic Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Data manipulation score — 15949
Phones tested — 13 models
Photo editing score — 40273
Video editing score — 8052
Web score — 16855
Writing score — 26073

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