Apple A12X Bionic vs Apple M4 iPad

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Apple A12X Bionic Apple M4 iPad

We compared two versions of tablet SoCs: 8 cores 2500MHz Apple A12X Bionic vs. 10 cores 4400MHz Apple M4 iPad . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A12X Bionic Advantages

Lower TDP (15W vs 20W)

Apple M4 iPad Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (120GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4400MHz vs 2500MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Score

Apple A12X Bionic

VS

Apple M4 iPad

CPU

4x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.59 GHz – Tempest

Architecture

4x 4.4 GHz –
6x 2.88 GHz –

2500 MHz

Frequency

4400 MHz

8

Cores

10

8 MB

L2 cache

16 MB

7 nm

Process

3 nm

10

Transistor count

28

15 W

TDP

20 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple 12X GPU

GPU name

Apple M4 GPU

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

1470 MHz

7

Execution units

10

64

Shading units

128

4

Max size

24

1.008 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12.1

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

7500 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

120 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Apple Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

38 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple Neural Engine

NVMe

Storage type

NVMe

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

-

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC v2, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Intel XMM 7560

Modem

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

-

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

-

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Oct 2018

Announced

May 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1083

Model number

-

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