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Apple A12X Bionic

Apple A12X Bionic
Apple A12X Bionic is a SmartPhone Flagship platform from Apple. It began to be released in October 2018. The SoC has 8 cores produced using 7 nm technology. And it also has a maximum frequency of 2500 MHz. Its characteristics, as well as benchmark results, are presented in more detail below.
Top SOC: 52

Basic

Label Name
Apple
Platform
SmartPhone Flagship
Launch Date
October 2018
Manufacturing
TSMC
Model Name
APL1083
Architecture
4x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.59 GHz – Tempest
Cores
8
Technology
7 nm
Frequency
2500 MHz
Transistor count
10
Instruction set
ARMv8.3-A

GPU Specifications

GPU name
Apple 12X GPU
GPU frequency
1125 MHz
Max display resolution
2732 x 2048
FLOPS
1.008 TFLOPS
Execution units
7
Shading units
64
OpenCL version
2.0
Vulkan version
1.1
DirectX version
12.1

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
Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC v2, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+
Storage type
NVMe
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP9
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
TDP
15 W

Geekbench 6

Single Core
1326
Multi Core
4588

Geekbench 5

Single Core
1073
Multi Core
4088

FP32 (float)

1018

Compared to Other SoC

47%
57%
80%
Better then 47% SOC over the past year
Better then 57% SOC over the past 3 years
Better then 80% SOC

SiliconCat Rating

52
Ranks 52 among all SOC on our website
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4217
Exynos 2200
Samsung, January 2022
1594
A12X Bionic
Apple, October 2018
1326
Dimensity 800U
MediaTek, August 2020
759
Snapdragon 821
Qualcomm, August 2016
391
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
M5 iPad
Apple, October 2025
15421
A12X Bionic
Apple, October 2018
4588
Snapdragon 778G
Qualcomm, May 2021
2787
Exynos 1330
Samsung, February 2023
1900
Snapdragon 670
Qualcomm, August 2018
1250
Geekbench 5 Single Core
M2 iPad
Apple, June 2022
1854
A13 Bionic
Apple, September 2019
1298
A12X Bionic
Apple, October 2018
1073
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
Snapdragon 888
Qualcomm, December 2020
2413
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
Qualcomm, December 2021
2142
Tensor G2
Google, October 2022
1783
FP32 (float)
Dimensity 9200
MediaTek, November 2022
3699
Snapdragon 888
Qualcomm, December 2020
1772
A12X Bionic
Apple, October 2018
1018
A13 Bionic
Apple, September 2019
610
A11 Bionic
Apple, September 2017
413