Apple A12X Bionic vs Apple A16 Bionic
We compared the tablet version of 8 cores 2500MHz Apple A12X Bionic vs. the phone version 6 cores 3460MHz Apple A16 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A16 Bionic Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7894 TFLOPS vs 1.008 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3460MHz vs 2500MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)
Lower TDP (8W vs 15W)
Released 3 years and 11 months late
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Apple A12X Bionic
1008
Apple A16 Bionic
+77%
1789
CPU
4x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.59 GHz – Tempest
4x 1.59 GHz – Tempest
Architecture
2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth
2500 MHz
Frequency
3460 MHz
8
Cores
6
ARMv8.3-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.6-A
8 MB
L2 cache
16 MB
7 nm
Process
4 nm
10
Transistor count
16
15 W
TDP
8 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple 12X GPU
GPU name
Apple A16 GPU
1125 MHz
GPU frequency
1398 MHz
7
Execution units
5
64
Shading units
128
4
Max size
6
1.008 TFLOPS
FLOPS
1.7894 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
-
2.0
OpenCL version
-
12.1
DirectX version
-
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR5
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
3200 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
51.2 Gbit/s
AI
-
NPU
Neural Engine
Multimedia (ISP)
Yes
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
NVMe
Storage type
NVMe
2732 x 2048
Max display resolution
2796 x 1290
-
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
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 3500 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
6
5.0
Bluetooth
5.3
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Info
Oct 2018
Announced
Sep 2022
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1083
Model number
APL1W10
