Apple A12 Bionic vs Apple A10 Fusion

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Apple A12 Bionic Apple A10 Fusion

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 4 cores 2340MHz Apple A10 Fusion . 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 0.2496 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

Apple A10 Fusion Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A12 Bionic +85%

643548

Apple A10 Fusion

347439

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A12 Bionic +48%

1301

Apple A10 Fusion

879

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A12 Bionic +113%

2843

Apple A10 Fusion

1332

FP32 (float)

Apple A12 Bionic +131%

576

Apple A10 Fusion

249

Apple A12 Bionic

VS

Apple A10 Fusion

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.34 GHz – Hurricane
2x 1.05 GHz – Zephyr

2490 MHz

Frequency

2340 MHz

6

Cores

4

8 MB

L2 cache

3 MB

-

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

16 nm

6.9

Transistor count

3.3

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

PowerVR GT7600

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

4

Execution units

6

64

Shading units

32

4

Max size

4

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1333 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Apple M10

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M10

NVMe

Storage type

NVMe

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

2048 x 1536

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, VC-1, Motion JPEG

AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Intel XMM 7560

Modem

Qualcomm MDM9645M

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 100 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Sep 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W81

Model number

APL1W24

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