A12 Bionic vs A10 Fusion
We compared the 6-core Apple A12 Bionic (Apple A12 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.
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CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulkan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
NanoReview Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of Apple A12 Bionic
- Has a smaller size transistor (7 versus 16 nm)
- Performs 2.3x better in floating-point computations
- Supports 129% higher memory bandwidth (34.1 against 14.9 GB/s)
- Higher GPU frequency (~73%)
- Announced 2-years and 1-month later
- Has 2 more cores
- Shows significantly better (up to 52%) AnTuTu 10 score – 643K vs 422K
- 6% higher CPU clock speed (2490 vs 2340 MHz)
- Better instruction set architecture
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Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 10
| CPU | 180501 | 145680 |
| GPU | 203202 | 92807 |
| Memory | 123963 | 67381 |
| UX | 132209 | 115644 |
| Total score | 643688 | 422911 |
GeekBench 6
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Asset compression | 108.3 MB/sec | 47.8 MB/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 61.7 pages/sec | 38.7 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 78.6 Mpixels/sec | 41.8 Mpixels/sec |
| Image detection | 21.4 images/sec | 12.1 images/sec |
| HDR | 89.6 Mpixels/sec | 47.3 Mpixels/sec |
| Background blur | 10.6 images/sec | 3.5 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 36.4 images/sec | 12 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 3.35 Mpixels/sec | 1.53 Mpixels/sec |
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3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | 69% | 62% |
| Graphics test | 31 FPS | 15 FPS |
| Score | 5207 | 2579 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of A12 Bionic and A10 FusionCPU
| Architecture | 2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex 4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest |
2x 2.34 GHz – Hurricane 2x 1.05 GHz – Zephyr |
| Cores | 6 | 4 |
| Frequency | 2490 MHz | 2340 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8.3-A | ARMv8-A |
| L1 cache | 128 KB | 64 KB |
| L2 cache | 8 MB | 3 MB |
| L3 cache | - | 4 MB |
| Process | 7 nanometers | 16 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 6.9 billion | 3.3 billion |
| TDP | 6 W | 5 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
Graphics
| GPU name | Apple A12 GPU | PowerVR GT7600 |
| Architecture | Apple GPU | PowerVR Series7XT (Rogue) |
| GPU frequency | 1125 MHz | 650 MHz |
| Execution units | 4 | 6 |
| Shading units | 64 | 32 |
| Total shaders | 256 | 192 |
| FLOPS | 576 Gigaflops | 249.6 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | - | 1.1 |
| OpenCL version | - | 1.2 |
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) | Neural Engine | Apple M10 |
| Storage type | NVMe | NVMe |
| Max display resolution | 2688 x 1242 | 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, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3 | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Connectivity
| Modem | Intel XMM 7560 | Qualcomm MDM9645M |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 18 | LTE Cat. 12 |
| 5G support | No | No |
| Download speed | Up to 1000 Mbps | Up to 600 Mbps |
| Upload speed | Up to 350 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 2018 | September 2016 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | APL1W81 | APL1W24 |
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