Apple A12 Bionic – an 6-core chipset that was announced on September 12, 2018, and is manufactured using a 7-nanometer process technology. It has 2 cores Vortex at 2490 MHz and 4 cores Tempest at 1600 MHz.
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarks
AnTuTu 8
The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
CPU |
129259 |
GPU |
148052 |
Memory |
56934 |
UX |
63018 |
Total score |
393524 |
GeekBench 5
The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Image compression |
131.35 Mpixels/s |
Face detection |
17.45 images/s |
Speech recognition |
70.4 words/s |
Machine learning |
58.9 images/s |
Camera shooting |
17.75 images/s |
HTML 5 |
3.17 Mnodes/s |
SQLite |
670.45 Krows/s |
Smartphones
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Specifications
Detailed specifications of the A12 Bionic SoC with Apple A12 Bionic GPU graphics
Architecture |
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex 4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest |
Cores |
6 |
Frequency |
2490 MHz |
Instruction set |
ARMv8.3-A |
L1 cache |
128 KB |
L2 cache |
8 MB |
Process |
7 nanometers |
Transistor count |
6.9 billion |
TDP |
6 W |
GPU name |
Apple A12 Bionic GPU |
Execution units |
4 |
FLOPS |
560 Gigaflops |
Vulkan version |
1.1 |
OpenCL version |
2.0 |
DirectX version |
12 |
Memory type |
LPDDR4X |
Memory frequency |
2133 MHz |
Bus |
1x 64 Bit |
Max bandwidth |
34.1 Gbit/s |
Max size |
12 GB |
Neural processor (NPU) |
Yes |
Storage type |
NVMe |
Max display resolution |
2688 x 1242 |
Max camera resolution |
2x 12MP |
Video capture |
4K at 60FPS |
Video playback |
4K at 60FPS |
Video codecs |
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG |
Audio codecs |
Protected AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3 |
4G support |
LTE Cat. 18 |
5G support |
No |
Download speed |
Up to 1000 Mbps |
Upload speed |
Up to 150 Mbps |
Wi-Fi |
5 |
Bluetooth |
5.0 |
Navigation |
GPS, GLONASS, Galileo |
Announced |
September 2018 |
Class |
Flagship |
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