Apple A18 Pro vs Apple A12 Bionic

VS

Apple A18 Pro

Apple A12 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 Pro 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 A18 Pro Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.2272 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2490MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)

Released 6 years late

Apple A12 Bionic Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 10W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A18 Pro +169%

1733863

Apple A12 Bionic

643548

FP32 (float)

Apple A18 Pro +286%

2227

Apple A12 Bionic

576

Apple A18 Pro

VS

Apple A12 Bionic

CPU

2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2.2 GHz –

Architecture

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

4040 MHz

Frequency

2490 MHz

6

Cores

6

ARMv9.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.3-A

4 MB

L2 cache

8 MB

16 MB

L3 cache

-

3 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

6.9

10 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A18 Pro GPU

GPU name

Apple A12 GPU

1450 MHz

GPU frequency

1125 MHz

6

Execution units

4

128

Shading units

64

8

Max size

4

2.2272 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.576 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

7500 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

60 GB/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

-

35 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

NVMe

Storage type

NVMe

-

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

1x 48MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, 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

Snapdragon X75

Modem

Intel XMM 7560

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

5

5.3

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2024

Announced

Sep 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

APL1W81

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