Apple M1 iPad vs Apple A12Z Bionic

VS

Apple M1 iPad

Apple A12Z Bionic

We compared two versions of tablet SoCs: 8 cores 3200MHz Apple M1 iPad vs. 8 cores 2500MHz Apple A12Z Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple M1 iPad Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.617 TFLOPS vs 1.106 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (68.25GB/s vs 68.2GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3200MHz vs 2500MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Lower TDP (14W vs 15W)

Released 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Apple M1 iPad +136%

2617

Apple A12Z Bionic

1106

Apple M1 iPad

VS

Apple A12Z Bionic

CPU

4x 2.1 GHz – Firestorm
4x 3.2 GHz – Icestorm

Architecture

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

3200 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8.5-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

12 MB

L2 cache

8 MB

5 nm

Process

7 nm

16

Transistor count

10

14 W

TDP

15 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple M1 GPU

GPU name

Apple A12Z GPU

1278 MHz

GPU frequency

1340 MHz

8

Execution units

64

128

Shading units

512

16

Max size

6

2.617 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.106 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

4266 MHz

Memory frequency

4266 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 64 Bit

68.25 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

68.2 GB/s

AI

Apple Neural Engine

NPU

-

11 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M12

NVMe

Storage type

NVMe

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

-

Max camera resolution

1x 12MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

-

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, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Nov 2020

Announced

Mar 2020

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1102

Model number

APL1083

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