Apple A11 Bionic vs Apple A12 Bionic

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Apple A11 Bionic

Apple A12 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2390MHz Apple A11 Bionic 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 A12 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.576 TFLOPS vs 0.4093 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 2390MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 10nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 8W)

Released 1 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A11 Bionic

409550

Apple A12 Bionic +57%

643548

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A11 Bionic

1097

Apple A12 Bionic +18%

1301

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A11 Bionic

2357

Apple A12 Bionic +20%

2843

FP32 (float)

Apple A11 Bionic

409

Apple A12 Bionic +40%

576

Apple A11 Bionic

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Apple A12 Bionic

CPU

2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon
4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral

Architecture

2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest

2390 MHz

Frequency

2490 MHz

6

Cores

6

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.3-A

8 MB

L2 cache

8 MB

10 nm

Process

7 nm

4.3

Transistor count

6.9

8 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A11 GPU

GPU name

Apple A12 GPU

1066 MHz

GPU frequency

1125 MHz

3

Execution units

4

64

Shading units

64

4

Max size

4

0.4093 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.576 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

2.1

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M10

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

NVMe

Storage type

NVMe

2436 x 1125

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

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, 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

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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 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2017

Announced

Sep 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W72

Model number

APL1W81

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