Apple A18 vs Apple A12 Bionic
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 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 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7894 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
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A18
+139%
1539646
Apple A12 Bionic
643548
FP32 (float)
Apple A18
+210%
1789
Apple A12 Bionic
576
CPU
2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –
Architecture
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
4040 MHz
Frequency
2490 MHz
6
Cores
6
ARMv9.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.3-A
-
L2 cache
8 MB
3 nm
Process
7 nm
-
Transistor count
6.9
-
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A18 GPU
GPU name
Apple A12 GPU
1398 MHz
GPU frequency
1125 MHz
5
Execution units
4
128
Shading units
64
8
Max size
4
1.7894 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
