Apple A12 Bionic vs Apple A11 Bionic

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Apple A12 Bionic Apple A11 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 6 cores 2390MHz Apple A11 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 A12 Bionic +57%

643548

Apple A11 Bionic

409550

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A12 Bionic +18%

1301

Apple A11 Bionic

1097

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A12 Bionic +20%

2843

Apple A11 Bionic

2357

FP32 (float)

Apple A12 Bionic +40%

576

Apple A11 Bionic

409

Apple A12 Bionic

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Apple A11 Bionic

CPU

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

Architecture

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

2490 MHz

Frequency

2390 MHz

6

Cores

6

8 MB

L2 cache

8 MB

7 nm

Process

10 nm

6.9

Transistor count

4.3

6 W

TDP

8 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Apple A11 GPU

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

1066 MHz

4

Execution units

3

64

Shading units

64

4

Max size

4

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.4093 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.1

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

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

2436 x 1125

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, 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

-

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 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Sep 2017

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W81

Model number

APL1W72

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