A12 Bionic vs A11 Bionic
We compared two 6-core processors: Apple A12 Bionic (with Apple A12 Bionic GPU graphics) and A11 Bionic (Apple GPU). 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
- Supports 129% higher memory bandwidth (34.1 against 14.9 GB/s)
- Performs 72% better in floating-point computations
- Has a smaller size transistor (7 versus 10 nm)
- Shows better (up to 32%) AnTuTu 9 score – 533K vs 403K
- Announced 1-year later
- Better instruction set architecture
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Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| CPU | 143402 | 124988 |
| GPU | 186891 | 147976 |
| Memory | 91638 | 61076 |
| UX | 107048 | 66430 |
| Total score | 533725 | 403463 |
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | 132.8 Mpixels/s | 122.9 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | 14.5 images/s | 21.6 images/s |
| Speech recognition | 67.8 words/s | 35.8 words/s |
| Machine learning | 54.1 images/s | 39.5 images/s |
| Camera shooting | 14.6 images/s | 21 images/s |
| HTML 5 | 3.27 Mnodes/s | 3.15 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | 745 Krows/s | 767.9 Krows/s |
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | 69% | 62% |
| Graphics test | 31 FPS | 18 FPS |
| Score | 5231 | 3162 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of A12 Bionic and A11 BionicCPU
| Architecture | 2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex 4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest |
2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon 4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral |
| Cores | 6 | 6 |
| Frequency | 2490 MHz | 2390 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8.3-A | ARMv8-A |
| L1 cache | 128 KB | 64 KB |
| L2 cache | 8 MB | 8 MB |
| Process | 7 nanometers | 10 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 6.9 billion | 4.3 billion |
| TDP | 6 W | 8 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Apple A12 Bionic GPU | Apple GPU |
| GPU frequency | 1125 MHz | - |
| Execution units | 32 | 3 |
| Shading units | 256 | - |
| FLOPS | 560 Gigaflops | 325 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.1 | 1.0 |
| OpenCL version | 2.0 | 2.1 |
| DirectX version | 12 | 12 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR4 |
| Memory frequency | 2133 MHz | 1866 MHz |
| Bus | 1x 64 Bit | 2x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 34.1 Gbit/s | 14.9 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 12 GB | 3 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Yes | Neural Engine |
| Storage type | NVMe | NVMe |
| Max display resolution | 2688 x 1242 | 2436 x 1125 |
| Max camera resolution | 2x 12MP | 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, 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
| 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 150 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 5 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 5.0 | 5.0 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo |
Info
| Announced | September 2018 | September 2017 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | APL1W81 | APL1W72 |
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