A12 Bionic vs A10 Fusion
We compared the 6-core Apple A12 Bionic (Apple A12 Bionic 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 A12 Bionic
- Performs 4.9x better in floating-point computations
- Has a smaller size transistor (7 versus 16 nm)
- Shows significantly better (up to 75%) AnTuTu 9 score – 530K vs 302K
- Announced 2-years and 1-month later
- Has 2 more cores
- Higher GPU frequency (~25%)
- 6% higher CPU clock speed (2490 vs 2340 MHz)
- Better instruction set architecture
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Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| CPU | 143402 | 94978 |
| GPU | 186891 | 92122 |
| Memory | 91638 | 41888 |
| UX | 107048 | 72094 |
| Total score | 530181 | 302824 |
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | 132.8 Mpixels/s | 65.5 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | 14.5 images/s | 10.2 images/s |
| Speech recognition | 67.8 words/s | 26.1 words/s |
| Machine learning | 54.1 images/s | 27.5 images/s |
| Camera shooting | 14.6 images/s | 14.3 images/s |
| HTML 5 | 3.27 Mnodes/s | 1.83 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | 745 Krows/s | 427.2 Krows/s |
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | 69% | 67% |
| Graphics test | 31 FPS | 15 FPS |
| Score | 5231 | 2640 |
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 |
Graphics
| GPU name | Apple A12 Bionic GPU | PowerVR GT7600 |
| Architecture | - | Rogue |
| GPU frequency | 1125 MHz | 900 MHz |
| Execution units | 32 | 6 |
| Shading units | 256 | 196 |
| FLOPS | 560 Gigaflops | 115 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.1 | 1.0 |
| OpenCL version | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | 12 | 12 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR4 |
| Memory frequency | 2133 MHz | - |
| Bus | 1x 64 Bit | - |
| Max bandwidth | 34.1 Gbit/s | - |
| Max size | 12 GB | 3 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Yes | No |
| Storage type | NVMe | NVMe |
| Max display resolution | 2688 x 1242 | 2048 x 1536 |
| Max camera resolution | 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 | - | 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 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 2018 | September 2016 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | APL1W81 | - |
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