Apple A12X Bionic vs Apple A15 Bionic

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Apple A12X Bionic Apple A15 Bionic

We compared the tablet version of 8 cores 2500MHz Apple A12X Bionic vs. the phone version 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A15 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7126 TFLOPS vs 1.008 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2500MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 15W)

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A12X Bionic

1326

Apple A15 Bionic +75%

2333

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A12X Bionic

4588

Apple A15 Bionic +25%

5741

FP32 (float)

Apple A12X Bionic

1008

Apple A15 Bionic +69%

1712

Apple A12X Bionic

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Apple A15 Bionic

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard

2500 MHz

Frequency

3230 MHz

8

Cores

6

8 MB

L2 cache

12 MB

7 nm

Process

5 nm

10

Transistor count

15

15 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple 12X GPU

GPU name

Apple A15 GPU

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

1338 MHz

7

Execution units

5

64

Shading units

128

4

Max size

6

1.008 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7126 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12.1

DirectX version

-

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

Yes

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

NVMe

Storage type

NVMe

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

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

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

Intel XMM 7560

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 350 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3000 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Oct 2018

Announced

Sep 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1083

Model number

APL1W07

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