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Apple A12 Bionic

Apple A12 Bionic
  • GPU: Apple A12 GPU
  • Cores: 6
  • Clock: 2490 MHz
Apple A12 Bionic โ€“ 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.

Review

CPU Performance
43
Gaming Performance
26
Battery life
84
NanoReview Score
45
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Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks

AnTuTu 11

The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
Apple A12 Bionic
895627
CPU 309104
GPU 144993
Memory 139578
UX 301952
Total score 895627
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GeekBench 6

The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Single-Core Score
1318
Multi-Core Score
3134
Asset compression 116.8 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 59.4 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 71.7 Mpixels/sec
Image detection 23.7 images/sec
HDR 98.7 Mpixels/sec
Background blur 11.2 images/sec
Photo processing 36.1 images/sec
Ray tracing 3.49 Mpixels/sec
Samples 5 tests
Compute Score (GPU)
7868
Background blur 16.1 images/sec
Face detection 19.2 images/sec
Horizon detection 0.26 Gpixels/sec
Edge detection 0.39 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 0.73 Gpixels/sec
Feature matching 0.12 Gpixels/sec
Stereo matching 24.1 Gpixels/sec
Particle physics 608.2 FPS
API Metal
Samples Less than 3

3DMark

A cross-platform benchmark that assesses graphics performance in Vulkan (Metal)
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
1482
Score 1482
Stability 65%
Graphics test 8 FPS

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
DateBenchmarkResult
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-09-16 -> op1Geekbench 6 CPU1344 / 4757
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-07-31 (ะ”ะธะผะฐ)AnTuTu 11644981
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-06-27 -> USAball386Geekbench 6 GPU7868
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-06-27 -> USAball386Geekbench 6 CPU1306 / 2770
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-05-12 -> GiahuyAnTuTu 11756483
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-05-05 (Jarukit)AnTuTu 11847535
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-05-02 (sp_ayz1)AnTuTu 11762903
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-03-22 (Jai)AnTuTu 11842172
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Smartphones

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Phones with A12 BionicAnTuTu v11
1. Apple iPhone XS Max842172
2. Apple iPhone XR762903
3. Apple iPhone XS756483

Specifications

Detailed specifications of the A12 Bionic SoC with Apple A12 GPU graphics

CPU

Architecture 2x 2.49 GHz โ€“ Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz โ€“ 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 (Sustained Power Limit) 6 W
Manufacturing TSMC

Graphics

GPU name Apple A12 GPU
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU
GPU frequency 1125 MHz
Pipelines 4
Shading units 64
Total shaders 256
FLOPS 576 Gigaflops

AI Accelerator

Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine

Memory

Memory type LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 2133 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 34.1 Gb/s
Max size 4 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type NVMe
Max display resolution 2688 x 1242
Max camera resolution 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Video capture 4K at 60FPS
Video playback 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- Motion JPEG
Audio codecs - AAC
- AACโ€‘LC
- AAX ะธ AAX+
- Apple Lossless
- HEโ€‘AAC
- HEโ€‘AAC v2
- Linear PCM
- MP3

Connectivity

Modem Intel XMM 7560
4G support LTE Cat. 18
5G support No
Download speed Up to 1000 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 350 Mbps
Wi-Fi 5
Bluetooth 5.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced September 2018
Class Flagship
Model number APL1W81
Successor - Apple A19 Pro

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Random May 26, 2024 at 08:24 AM
Great chipset. I compared COD Mobile with this and Exynos 2200. While benchmarks are lower, this is much smoother and does not get as hot as the other phone. Apple's optimization is really good.
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Arco chewe November 3, 2024 at 03:06 AM
Exynos chipset throttled to much and bottleneck is just pain at this point what's GPU BTW?
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Anonymous November 6, 2024 at 03:46 PM
Arco chewe, GPU is Graphics Processing Unit and it exists because graphical processing is simple and repetitive, so instead of having a few cores that do many things slowly like the CPU, a GPU has many cores that do a few things very quickly.
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