Apple A15 Bionic vs Apple A12 Bionic
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 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 A15 Bionic Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7126 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )
Higher Frequency (3230MHz vs 2490MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)
Released 3 years late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A15 Bionic
+100%
1290037
Apple A12 Bionic
643548
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A15 Bionic
+79%
2333
Apple A12 Bionic
1301
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A15 Bionic
+101%
5741
Apple A12 Bionic
2843
FP32 (float)
Apple A15 Bionic
+197%
1712
Apple A12 Bionic
576
CPU
2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
Architecture
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
3230 MHz
Frequency
2490 MHz
6
Cores
6
ARMv8.5-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.3-A
12 MB
L2 cache
8 MB
5 nm
Process
7 nm
15
Transistor count
6.9
6 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A15 GPU
GPU name
Apple A12 GPU
1338 MHz
GPU frequency
1125 MHz
5
Execution units
4
128
Shading units
64
6
Max size
4
1.7126 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
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, 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. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1000 Mbps
Up to 3000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
5
5.0
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Sep 2021
Announced
Sep 2018
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W07
Model number
APL1W81
