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Apple A12 Bionic

Apple A12 Bionic

Apple A12 Bionic is a SmartPhone Flagship platform from Apple. It began to be released in September 2018. The SoC has 6 cores produced using 7 nm technology. And it also has a maximum frequency of 2490 MHz. Its characteristics, as well as benchmark results, are presented in more detail below.

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Basic

Label Name
Apple
Platform
SmartPhone Flagship
Launch Date
September 2018
Manufacturing
TSMC
Model Name
APL1W81
Architecture
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex 4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Cores
6
Technology
7 nm
Frequency
2490 MHz
Transistor count
6.9
Instruction set
ARMv8.3-A

GPU Specifications

GPU name
Apple A12 GPU
GPU frequency
1125 MHz
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
FLOPS
0.576 TFLOPS
Execution units
4
Shading units
64
OpenCL version
2.0
Vulkan version
1.1
DirectX version
12

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 18
5G support
No
Bluetooth
5.0
Wi-Fi
5
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Memory Specifications

Memory type
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
Memory Bus
4x 16 Bit
Max Bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s

Miscellaneous

L2 Cache
8 MB
Audio codecs
AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Storage type
NVMe
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
TDP
6 W

Geekbench 6

Single Core
1301
Multi Core
2843

Geekbench 5

Single Core
1102
Multi Core
2449

AnTuTu 10

624370

FP32 (float)

594

Compared to Other SoC

27%
53%
76%
Better then 27% SOC over the past year
Better then 53% SOC over the past 3 years
Better then 76% SOC

SiliconCat Rating

50
Ranks 50 among all SOC on our website
Geekbench 6 Single Core
M4 iPad
Apple, May 2024
3729
A12 Bionic
Apple, September 2018
1301
Dimensity 810
MediaTek, August 2021
787
Snapdragon 821
Qualcomm, August 2016
391
Snapdragon 625
Qualcomm, February 2016
189
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
M4 iPad
Apple, May 2024
14530
Tensor
Google, October 2021
3234
A12 Bionic
Apple, September 2018
2843
Snapdragon 670
Qualcomm, August 2018
1250
Helio A25
MediaTek, June 2018
708
Geekbench 5 Single Core
M2 iPad
Apple, June 2022
1854
A13 Bionic
Apple, September 2019
1298
A12 Bionic
Apple, September 2018
1102
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
Qualcomm, December 2021
623
Tensor G2
Google, October 2022
584
Geekbench 5 Multi Core
M2 iPad
Apple, June 2022
8464
A12X Bionic
Apple, October 2018
4088
A12 Bionic
Apple, September 2018
2449
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
Qualcomm, December 2021
2142
Tensor G2
Google, October 2022
1783
AnTuTu 10
Dimensity 9400
MediaTek, November 2024
3553537
Dimensity 8100
MediaTek, March 2022
852364
A12 Bionic
Apple, September 2018
624370
Snapdragon 4 Gen 2
Qualcomm, June 2023
423776
Snapdragon 680
Qualcomm, October 2021
319423
FP32 (float)
Dimensity 9000 Plus
MediaTek, July 2022
1845
Dimensity 1000 Plus
MediaTek, May 2020
1009
A12 Bionic
Apple, September 2018
594
Snapdragon 710
Qualcomm, May 2018
372
A9
Apple, September 2015
246