A11 Bionic vs A10 Fusion
We compared the 6-core Apple A11 Bionic (Apple GPU) with the older 4-core A10 Fusion (PowerVR GT7600) SoC. Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
NanoReview Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of Apple A11 Bionic
- Supports 129% higher memory bandwidth (34.1 against 14.9 GB/s)
- Performs 89% better in floating-point computations
- Has a smaller size transistor (10 versus 16 nm)
- Has 2 more cores
- Announced 1-year later
- Shows better (up to 33%) AnTuTu 9 score – 398K vs 299K
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| CPU | 126597 | 90659 |
| GPU | 122199 | 93040 |
| Memory | 65581 | 51112 |
| UX | 84287 | 66265 |
| Total score | 398270 | 299242 |
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | 122.9 Mpixels/s | 65.5 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | 21.6 images/s | 10.2 images/s |
| Speech recognition | 35.8 words/s | 26.1 words/s |
| Machine learning | 39.5 images/s | 27.5 images/s |
| Camera shooting | 21 images/s | 14.3 images/s |
| HTML 5 | 3.15 Mnodes/s | 1.83 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | 767.9 Krows/s | 427.2 Krows/s |
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | 62% | 62% |
| Graphics test | 18 FPS | 15 FPS |
| Score | 3146 | 2582 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of A11 Bionic and A10 FusionCPU
| Architecture | 2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon 4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral |
2x 2.34 GHz – Hurricane 2x 1.05 GHz – Zephyr |
| Cores | 6 | 4 |
| Frequency | 2390 MHz | 2340 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8-A | ARMv8-A |
| L1 cache | 64 KB | 64 KB |
| L2 cache | 8 MB | 3 MB |
| L3 cache | - | 4 MB |
| Process | 10 nanometers | 16 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 4.3 billion | 3.3 billion |
| TDP | 8 W | 5 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Apple GPU | PowerVR GT7600 |
| Architecture | - | Rogue |
| GPU frequency | - | 900 MHz |
| Execution units | 3 | 6 |
| Shading units | - | 192 |
| FLOPS | 325 Gigaflops | 172 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| OpenCL version | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | 12 | 12 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR4 |
| Memory frequency | 2133 MHz | 1333 MHz |
| Bus | 4x 16 Bit | 2x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 34.1 Gbit/s | 14.9 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 4 GB | 4 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Apple M10 | Apple M10 |
| Storage type | NVMe | NVMe |
| Max display resolution | 2436 x 1125 | 2048 x 1536 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP | 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG | H.264, H.265, VC-1, Motion JPEG |
| Audio codecs | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Connectivity
| Modem | - | Qualcomm MDM9645M |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 12 | LTE Cat. 12 |
| 5G support | No | No |
| Download speed | Up to 600 Mbps | Up to 600 Mbps |
| Upload speed | Up to 150 Mbps | Up to 100 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 5 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 5.0 | 4.2 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo |
Info
| Announced | September 2017 | September 2016 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | APL1W72 | APL1W24 |
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