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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: 45

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

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
Max Bandwidth
68.2 GB/s

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

41%
60%
82%
Better then 41% SOC over the past year
Better then 60% SOC over the past 3 years
Better then 82% SOC

SiliconCat Rating

45
Ranks 45 among all SOC on our website
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Dimensity 9500
MediaTek, September 2025
3950
Kirin 8020
HiSilicon, May 2025
1336
A12Z Bionic
Apple, March 2020
1322
Snapdragon 480 5G
Qualcomm, January 2021
699
Snapdragon 662
Qualcomm, January 2020
339
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
M4 iPad
Apple, May 2024
14530
A12Z Bionic
Apple, March 2020
4642
Snapdragon 860
Qualcomm, April 2019
2569
Dimensity 800U
MediaTek, August 2020
1837
Exynos 9611
Samsung, September 2019
1112
Geekbench 5 Single Core
M2 iPad
Apple, June 2022
1854
A13 Bionic
Apple, September 2019
1298
A12Z Bionic
Apple, March 2020
1090
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
Qualcomm, December 2021
623
Tensor G2
Google, October 2022
584
Geekbench 5 Multi Core
M2 iPad
Apple, June 2022
8464
A12Z Bionic
Apple, March 2020
4397
Snapdragon 888
Qualcomm, December 2020
2413
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
Qualcomm, December 2021
2142
Tensor G2
Google, October 2022
1783
FP32 (float)
Dimensity 9400 Plus
MediaTek, April 2025
5002
Kirin 9000E
HiSilicon, October 2020
2115
A12Z Bionic
Apple, March 2020
1073
Kirin 990 4G
HiSilicon, October 2019
670
Snapdragon 730G
Qualcomm, April 2019
426

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