Apple A14 Bionic vs Apple A12 Bionic

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Apple A14 Bionic

Apple A12 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3100MHz Apple A14 Bionic vs. 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A14 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6543 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3100MHz vs 2490MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Released 2 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A14 Bionic +64%

1061696

Apple A12 Bionic

643548

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple A14 Bionic +60%

2087

Apple A12 Bionic

1301

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple A14 Bionic +69%

4820

Apple A12 Bionic

2843

FP32 (float)

Apple A14 Bionic +13%

654

Apple A12 Bionic

576

Apple A14 Bionic

VS

Apple A12 Bionic

CPU

2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm

Architecture

2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest

3100 MHz

Frequency

2490 MHz

6

Cores

6

ARMv8.5-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.3-A

8 MB

L2 cache

8 MB

5 nm

Process

7 nm

11.8

Transistor count

6.9

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A14 GPU

GPU name

Apple A12 GPU

1278 MHz

GPU frequency

1125 MHz

4

Execution units

4

64

Shading units

64

6

Max size

4

0.6543 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.576 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12

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

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

NVMe

Storage type

NVMe

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

-

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

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

Audio codecs

AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3

-

Modem

Intel XMM 7560

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

Up to 2500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2020

Announced

Sep 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W01

Model number

APL1W81

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