Apple A14 Bionic

Apple A14 Bionic
  • GPU: Apple A14 GPU
  • Cores: 6
  • Clock: 3100 MHz
Apple A14 Bionic – an 6-core chipset that was announced on September 15, 2020, and is manufactured using a 5-nanometer process technology. It has 2 cores Firestorm at 3100 MHz and 4 cores Icestorm at 1800 MHz.

Review

CPU Performance
66
Gaming Performance
40
Battery life
92
NanoReview Score
62
Compare Apple A14 Bionic with other SoCs

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks

AnTuTu 11

The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
Apple A14 Bionic
1326975
CPU 364692
GPU 311592
Memory 180518
UX 470169
Total score 1326975

GeekBench 6

The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Single-Core Score
2095
Multi-Core Score
5297
Asset compression 182.6 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 110.6 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 123.2 Mpixels/sec
Image detection 104.9 images/sec
HDR 164.1 Mpixels/sec
Background blur 19.1 images/sec
Photo processing 50.8 images/sec
Ray tracing 5.36 Mpixels/sec
Samples 22 tests
Compute Score (GPU)
16822
Background blur 27.6 images/sec
Face detection 35.2 images/sec
Horizon detection 0.54 Gpixels/sec
Edge detection 0.79 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 0.83 Gpixels/sec
Feature matching 0.24 Gpixels/sec
Stereo matching 50.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle physics 1772.1 FPS
API Metal
Samples 17 tests

3DMark

A cross-platform benchmark that assesses graphics performance in Vulkan (Metal)
3DMark Solar Bay
2767
Score 2767
Stability 85%
Graphics test 11 FPS
Section 1 13 FPS
Section 2 10 FPS
Section 3 8 FPS
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
2229
Score 2229
Stability 86%
Graphics test 13 FPS

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-26 (kudryash)AnTuTu 111196958
πŸ“˜ 2026-08-04 (Stelle)AnTuTu 111288870
πŸ“˜ 2026-06-30 (Kirious)AnTuTu 111251875
πŸ“˜ 2026-06-30 (Kirious)AnTuTu 111251875
πŸ“˜ 2026-06-29 (Kirillkryt)AnTuTu 111284629
πŸ“˜ 2026-06-29 (Ad_545)AnTuTu 111216748
πŸ“˜ 2026-06-26 (Hellomt)AnTuTu 111334721
πŸ“˜ 2026-06-15 (hungph)AnTuTu 111342343

Smartphones

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Phones with A14 BionicAnTuTu v11
1. Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max1342343
2. Apple iPhone 121341575
3. Apple iPhone 12 Pro1328132
4. Apple iPhone 12 mini1306432

Specifications

Detailed specifications of the A14 Bionic SoC with Apple A14 GPU graphics

CPU

Architecture 2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
Cores 6
Frequency 3100 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.5-A
L1 cache 128 KB
L2 cache 8 MB
Process 5 nanometers
Transistor count 11.8 billion
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 6 W
Manufacturing TSMC

Graphics

GPU name Apple A14 GPU
Architecture Apple Bionic GPU
GPU frequency 1278 MHz
Pipelines 4
Shading units 64
Total shaders 256
FLOPS 654.3 Gigaflops

AI Accelerator

Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine
NPU theoretical performance 11 TOPS

Memory

Memory type LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 2133 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 34.1 Gb/s
Max size 6 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type NVMe
Max display resolution 2732 x 2048
Video capture 4K at 60FPS
Video playback 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- Motion JPEG
Audio codecs - AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

4G support LTE Cat. 18
5G support Yes
Download speed Up to 7500 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 2500 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6
Bluetooth 5.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced September 2020
Class Flagship
Model number APL1W01
Successor - Apple A19 Pro

Comments

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Starjack36 October 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Using this chip in my iPad 10th Gen, still fast in 2025. In fact, it’s like my second computer to my laptop but much easy to carry anywhere.
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90fps January 29, 2023 at 08:37 AM
Youtubers use an iphone coz of the best recording quality and editing but 90fps gameplay in a snapdragon chipset is better than 60fps iphone.
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HowD July 22, 2024 at 12:28 PM
For social media yes. But some androids have surpass apple now in overall camera quality and in video specially the vivo X100 ultra and huawei pura 70 ultra
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koothara April 28, 2025 at 12:26 PM
not correct, not correct
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ishowspeed March 3, 2026 at 12:26 AM
still using my iPhone 12, still the best video recording machine ever, even i have Galaxy S23 ultra πŸ˜‚,,, ngl iPhones have best video recording stability, efficient in size, also good at indoor videos as well
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Anonymous August 21, 2022 at 02:25 AM
For 3dmark wildlife, A14 bionic is more than capable of averaging above 50+ fps.
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MrNiceGuy July 8, 2021 at 09:24 PM
I question the validity of the battery life ranking. How can the A14 bionic get a lower ranking than the snapdragon 888? It is obvious and clear that the battery drain, measured in mAh/min, of the latest iPhones (12 series) is superior when compared to any snapdragon 888 equipped phone.
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SUA March 29, 2021 at 03:33 PM
this phone is fucking expensive!
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Kyle June 3, 2021 at 08:00 AM
exactly, this phone is around 1500$
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Mick March 21, 2022 at 11:02 AM
Kyle, I'm buying this one at about $720
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al123 March 25, 2021 at 02:33 PM
The phone I'm getting is the Samsung S21 Ultra and is the best.
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U r dumb May 19, 2021 at 10:31 AM
Why , the iphone 12 is better
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iPhone gang August 17, 2022 at 11:45 PM
The term "BEST" is subjective because the iPhone is best to me due to the fact that it owns the entire platform from the hardware to the software and there are fewer devices from Apple so developers find it easier to develop apps for the IOS platform because of that when compared to over 500 devices from Samsung, 3,000 devices from Xiaomi and over a million devices from other brands so yeah the iPhone is the best to me, but it might not be the best for you so like I said, it is subjective
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al123 March 25, 2021 at 02:31 PM
The Samsung S21 Ultra in my opinion is a better phone. That's what I'm getting.
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TONY November 3, 2020 at 07:31 PM
iphone is super expensive
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bruh November 13, 2020 at 07:40 PM
no way i never knew that!
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YoMama February 25, 2021 at 10:34 PM
Never worth it unless you're probably like 3 or 4 years behind.
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SomeDumbIdiot April 16, 2021 at 09:00 AM
Yup, it's alot better to buy older iPhones like iPhone 7 or 8.
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iPhone gang August 17, 2022 at 11:46 PM
SomeDumbIdiot, I don't completely agree with you on that..
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