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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.
Top SOC: 76

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

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

AnTuTu 10

Score
701523

Performance

CPU
Score
181556
GPU
Score
144803
Memory
Score
145386
UX
Score
229778
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Geekbench 6

Single Core
1301
Multi Core
2843

Geekbench 5

Single Core
1102
Multi Core
2449

FP32 (float)

594

Compared to Other SoC

31%
44%
70%
Better then 31% SOC over the past year
Better then 44% SOC over the past 3 years
Better then 70% SOC

SiliconCat Rating

76
Ranks 76 among all SOC on our website
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1413
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1301
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740
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15421
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4030
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2843
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1860
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1156
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1854
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1298
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1102
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623
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584
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8464
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4088
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594
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396
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257
AnTuTu 10
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1772345
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949012
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701523
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