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Apple A12Z Bionic

Apple A12Z Bionic
Apple A12Z Bionic is a SmartPhone Flagship platform from Apple. It began to be released in March 2020. 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: 61

Basic

Label Name
Apple
Platform
SmartPhone Flagship
Launch Date
March 2020
Manufacturing
TSMC
Model Name
APL1083
Architecture
4x 2.5 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.59 GHz – Tempest
Cores
8
Technology
7 nm
Frequency
2500 MHz
Transistor count
10
Instruction set
ARMv8-A

GPU Specifications

GPU name
Apple A12Z GPU
GPU frequency
1340 MHz
Max display resolution
2732 x 2048
FLOPS
1.106 TFLOPS
Execution units
64
Shading units
512
OpenCL version
2.0
Vulkan version
1.1
DirectX version
12

Connectivity

Download speed
Up to 1000 Mbps
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
4266 MHz
Memory Bus
2x 64 Bit

Miscellaneous

L2 Cache
8 MB
Audio codecs
Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC v2, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+
Max camera resolution
1x 12MP
Storage type
NVMe
Video codecs
H.264
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
Neural processor (NPU)
Apple M12
TDP
15 W

Geekbench 6

Single Core
1322
Multi Core
4642

Geekbench 5

Single Core
1090
Multi Core
4397

FP32 (float)

1073

Compared to Other SoC

54%
52%
79%
Better then 54% SOC over the past year
Better then 52% SOC over the past 3 years
Better then 79% SOC

SiliconCat Rating

61
Ranks 61 among all SOC on our website
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4713
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1665
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1322
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852
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456
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
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15421
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4787
A12Z Bionic
Apple, March 2020
4642
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2187
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1469
Geekbench 5 Single Core
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1854
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1298
A12Z Bionic
Apple, March 2020
1090
T7300
Unisoc, July 2025
685
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596
Geekbench 5 Multi Core
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Apple, June 2022
8464
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Apple, March 2020
4397
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2413
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2166
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1805
FP32 (float)
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3707
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1909
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Apple, March 2020
1073
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670
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426

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