Apple A12X Bionic vs Apple A12 Bionic
Apple A12X Bionic
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The Apple A12X Bionic is a System on a Chip (SoC) from Apple that is found in the iPad Pro 11 and 12.5-inch from 2018. It offers 8 cores divided in four performance cores and four power efficiency cores (up from the 6 cores in the A12 of the iPhone XS). Compared to the previous A10X in the old iPad Pro models, Apple advertises up to 95% higher performance of the CPU cores.
The chip also includes a new GPU with 7 cores, the M12 Motion co-processor and a Neural Engine with 8 cores for up to 5 trillion operations per second.
With 10 billion transistors (A12 6.9 billion), the A12X Bionic is a big chip especially compared to the Snapdragon 835 (3 Billion) or a Skylake desktop quad-core Soc (1.75 Billion).
Apple A12 Bionic
► remove from comparisonThe Apple A12 Bionic is a System on a Chip (SoC) from Apple that is found in the iPhone Xs and Xr. It was announced late 2018 and offers 6 cores divided in 2 performance cores and four power efficiency cores. Compared to the previous A11 Bionic, the A12 should offer a 15% improved CPU performance for the performance cores and a 50% lower power consumption for the efficiency cores (both according to Apple).
The chip also includes a new GPU that is advertised as 50% faster, the M12 Motion co-processor and a Neural Engine with 8 cores for up to 5 trillion operations per second.
With 6.9 billion transistors, the A12 Bionic is a big chip especially compared to the Snapdragon 835 (3 Billion) or a Skylake desktop quad-core Soc (1.75 Billion). Compared to the A11, the A12 integrates 60% more transistors.
| Model | Apple A12X Bionic | Apple A12 Bionic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Codename | Vortex, Tempest | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Series | Apple Apple A-Series | Apple Apple A-Series | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Series: Apple A-Series |
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| Clock | <=2490 MHz | <=2490 MHz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| L1 Cache | 2 MB | 256 KB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| L2 Cache | 8 MB | 8 MB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cores / Threads | 8 / 8 | 6 / 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Transistors | 10000 Million | 6900 Million | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Technology | 7 nm | 7 nm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Features | ARMv8 Instruction Set | ARMv8 Instruction Set | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| iGPU | Apple A12X Bionic GPU | Apple A12 Bionic GPU | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NPU / AI | 5 TOPS INT8 | 5 TOPS INT8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Architecture | ARM | ARM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Benchmarks
Average Benchmarks Apple A12X Bionic → 100% n=24
Average Benchmarks Apple A12 Bionic → 77% n=24
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
1 This benchmark is not used for the average calculation
