Apple A12 Bionic vs Apple A18 Pro

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Apple A12 Bionic Apple A18 Pro

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 6 cores 3890MHz Apple A18 Pro . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A18 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.2272 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (78.8GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3890MHz vs 2490MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)

Released 6 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A12 Bionic

643548

Apple A18 Pro +201%

1938352

FP32 (float)

Apple A12 Bionic

576

Apple A18 Pro +286%

2227

Apple A12 Bionic

VS

Apple A18 Pro

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 3.89 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

2490 MHz

Frequency

3890 MHz

6

Cores

6

8 MB

L2 cache

-

7 nm

Process

3 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A12 GPU

GPU name

Apple A18 GPU

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

1450 MHz

4

Execution units

6

64

Shading units

128

4

Max size

8

0.576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.2272 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5T

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

78.8 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

NVMe

Storage type

NVMe

2688 x 1242

Max display resolution

-

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, 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, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

Intel XMM 7560

Modem

Snapdragon X75

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

7

5.0

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2018

Announced

Sep 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W81

Model number

-

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