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Apple A10 Fusion vs Apple A12 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2340MHz Apple A10 Fusion vs. 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A10 Fusion Advantages
Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)
Apple A12 Bionic Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.576 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 2340MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 16nm)
Released 2 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
Apple A10 Fusion
347439
Apple A12 Bionic +85%
643548
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A10 Fusion
879
Apple A12 Bionic +48%
1301
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A10 Fusion
1332
Apple A12 Bionic +113%
2843
FP32 (float)
Apple A10 Fusion
249
Apple A12 Bionic +131%
576

CPU

2x 2.34 GHz – Hurricane
2x 1.05 GHz – Zephyr
Architecture
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
2340 MHz
Frequency
2490 MHz
4
Cores
6
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.3-A
3 MB
L2 cache
8 MB
0
L3 cache
-
16 nm
Process
7 nm
3.3
Transistor count
6.9
5 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GT7600
GPU name
Apple A12 GPU
650 MHz
GPU frequency
1125 MHz
6
Execution units
4
32
Shading units
64
4
Max size
4
0.2496 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.576 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.1
1.2
OpenCL version
2.0
12
DirectX version
12

Memory

LPDDR4
Memory type
LPDDR4X
1333 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
2x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
14.9 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M10
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
NVMe
Storage type
NVMe
2048 x 1536
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, VC-1, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
Qualcomm MDM9645M
Modem
Intel XMM 7560

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
No
5G support
No
Up to 600 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1000 Mbps
Up to 100 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
5
4.2
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2016
Announced
Sep 2018
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W24
Model number
APL1W81
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