Apple A12X Bionic vs Apple M2 iPad

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Apple A12X Bionic Apple M2 iPad

We compared two versions of tablet SoCs: 8 cores 2500MHz Apple A12X Bionic vs. 8 cores 3490MHz Apple M2 iPad . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple M2 iPad Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.918 TFLOPS vs 1.008 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3490MHz vs 2500MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Apple A12X Bionic

1008

Apple M2 iPad +189%

2918

Apple A12X Bionic

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Apple M2 iPad

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 3.49 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.42 GHz – Blizzard

2500 MHz

Frequency

3490 MHz

8

Cores

8

8 MB

L2 cache

16 MB

7 nm

Process

5 nm

10

Transistor count

20

15 W

TDP

15 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple 12X GPU

GPU name

Apple M2 GPU

1125 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

7

Execution units

8

64

Shading units

128

4

Max size

24

1.008 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.918 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12.1

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

6400 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

102.4 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Yes

-

Theoretical Performance

15.8 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

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, VP9

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

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

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, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Oct 2018

Announced

Jun 2022

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1083

Model number

APL1109

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