Apple A12 Bionic

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.

CPU Performance

73

Gaming Performance

65

Battery life

75

NanoReview Score

72

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)

1110

Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)

2911

AnTuTu Benchmark 8

395812

Smartphones

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Phones with A12 Bionic	AnTuTu v8
1. Apple iPhone XS Max	458076
2. Apple iPhone XS	455194
3. Apple iPhone XR	420273

Specifications

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

CPU

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

Graphics

GPU name	Apple A12 Bionic GPU
Cores	4
FLOPS	1000 Gigaflops
Vulkan version	1.1
OpenCL version	2.0
DirectX version	12

Memory

Memory type	LPDDR4X
Memory frequency	2133 MHz
Bus	1x 64 Bit
Max bandwidth	34.1 Gbit/s
Max size	12 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

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

Connectivity

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

Info

Announced	September 2018
Class	Flagship