Apple A12X Bionic vs Apple A12Z Bionic

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We compared two versions of tablet SoCs: 8 cores 2500MHz Apple A12X Bionic vs. 8 cores 2500MHz Apple A12Z Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A12Z Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.106 TFLOPS vs 1.008 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (68.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A12X Bionic

1326

Apple A12Z Bionic

1322

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A12X Bionic

4588

Apple A12Z Bionic +1%

4642

FP32 (float)

Apple A12X Bionic

1008

Apple A12Z Bionic +9%

1106

Apple A12X Bionic

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Apple A12Z Bionic

CPU

4x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.59 GHz – Tempest

Architecture

4x 2.5 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.59 GHz – Tempest

2500 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

8

Cores

8

8 MB

L2 cache

8 MB

7 nm

Process

7 nm

10

Transistor count

10

15 W

TDP

15 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple 12X GPU

GPU name

Apple A12Z GPU

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

1340 MHz

7

Execution units

64

Shading units

512

4

Max size

6

1.008 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.106 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12.1

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

4266 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 64 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

68.2 GB/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Apple M12

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M12

NVMe

Storage type

NVMe

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

-

Max camera resolution

1x 12MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264

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

Audio codecs

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

Intel XMM 7560

Modem

Intel XMM 7560

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

No

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

Up to 350 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

Oct 2018

Announced

Mar 2020

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1083

Model number

APL1083

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