Apple A12Z Bionic vs Apple M4 iPad

VS

Apple A12Z Bionic

Apple M4 iPad

We compared two versions of tablet SoCs: 8 cores 2500MHz Apple A12Z Bionic vs. 10 cores 4400MHz Apple M4 iPad . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A12Z Bionic Advantages

Lower TDP (15W vs 20W)

Apple M4 iPad Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (120GB/s vs 68.2GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4400MHz vs 2500MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Score

Apple A12Z Bionic

VS

Apple M4 iPad

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 4.4 GHz –
6x 2.88 GHz –

2500 MHz

Frequency

4400 MHz

8

Cores

10

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.4-A

8 MB

L2 cache

16 MB

7 nm

Process

3 nm

10

Transistor count

28

15 W

TDP

20 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A12Z GPU

GPU name

Apple M4 GPU

1340 MHz

GPU frequency

1470 MHz

64

Execution units

10

512

Shading units

128

6

Max size

24

1.106 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.1

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5X

4266 MHz

Memory frequency

7500 MHz

2x 64 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

68.2 GB/s

Max bandwidth

120 Gbit/s

AI

-

Theoretical Performance

38 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple M12

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple Neural Engine

NVMe

Storage type

NVMe

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

-

1x 12MP

Max camera resolution

-

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, 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 350 Mbps

Upload speed

-

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Mar 2020

Announced

May 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1083

Model number

-

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