Apple A12Z Bionic vs Apple M2 iPad
We compared two versions of tablet SoCs: 8 cores 2500MHz Apple A12Z 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 1.106 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 68.2GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3490MHz vs 2500MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)
Released 2 years and 3 months late
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Apple A12Z Bionic
1106
Apple M2 iPad
+163%
2918
CPU
4x 2.5 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.59 GHz – Tempest
4x 1.59 GHz – Tempest
Architecture
4x 3.49 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.42 GHz – Blizzard
4x 2.42 GHz – Blizzard
2500 MHz
Frequency
3490 MHz
8
Cores
8
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.5-A
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 A12Z GPU
GPU name
Apple M2 GPU
1340 MHz
GPU frequency
1398 MHz
64
Execution units
8
512
Shading units
128
6
Max size
24
1.106 TFLOPS
FLOPS
2.918 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
-
2.0
OpenCL version
-
12
DirectX version
-
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR5
4266 MHz
Memory frequency
6400 MHz
2x 64 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
68.2 GB/s
Max bandwidth
102.4 Gbit/s
AI
-
NPU
Apple Neural Engine
-
Theoretical Performance
15.8 TOPS
Multimedia (ISP)
Apple M12
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
NVMe
Storage type
NVMe
2732 x 2048
Max display resolution
2732 x 2048
1x 12MP
Max camera resolution
-
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
H.264
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
Mar 2020
Announced
Jun 2022
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1083
Model number
APL1109