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Apple A12Z Bionic vs Apple A13 Bionic vs Apple A12X Bionic

Apple A12Z Bionic

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The Apple A12Z Bionic is a System on a Chip (SoC) from Apple that is found in the iPad Pro 11 and 12.5-inch from 2020. 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). The difference to the older Apple A12X Bionic in the iPad Pro 2018 models seems to be an additional GPU core. Regarding CPU Apple noted: "Enhanced thermal design means higher peak and longer sustained performance". More details were not published by Apple, so it may be even the same chip with an additional enabled GPU core. On the other hand, it could be also manufactured in an improved 7nm (EUV?) process and offer higher clock rates. As Apple states no performance improvements on the CPU side, we don't expect big gains. However, the A12X was a very fast ARM based SoC and currently there is no competitor in the Android space that should beat the performance.

The chip also includes the M12 Motion co-processor and a Neural Engine with 8 cores for up to 5 trillion operations per second (unverified, numbers from the A12X).

The Apple A12X included 10 billion transistors (A12 6.9 billion) and the A12Z should be therefore offer a similar amount. This makes it a quite big chip, especially compared to the Snapdragon 835 (3 Billion) or a Skylake desktop quad-core SoC (1.75 Billion).

Apple A13 Bionic

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The Apple A13 Bionic is a System on a Chip (SoC) from Apple that is found in the iPhone 11 series. It was announced late 2019 and offers 6 cores divided in 2 performance cores and four power efficiency cores. Compared to the previous A12 Bionic, the A13 should offer a 20% improved CPU performance at 40% lower power (according to Apple).

With 8.5 billion transistors, the A13 Bionic is a big chip especially compared to the Snapdragon 835 (3 Billion) or a Skylake desktop quad-core Soc (1.75 Billion).

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).

ModelApple A12Z BionicApple A13 BionicApple A12X Bionic
SeriesApple Apple A-SeriesApple Apple A-SeriesApple Apple A-Series
CodenameVortex, TempestLightning and ThunderVortex, Tempest
Series: Apple A-Series Vortex, Tempest
Apple A12Z Bionic « - 2.49 GHz8 / 8 cores Vortex, Tempest
Apple A12X Bionic - 2.49 GHz8 / 8 cores Vortex, Tempest
Apple A12Z Bionic - 2.49 GHz8 / 8 cores Vortex, Tempest
Apple A12X Bionic « - 2.49 GHz8 / 8 cores Vortex, Tempest
Clock <=2490 MHz <=2660 MHz <=2490 MHz
L1 Cache2 MB832 KB2 MB
L2 Cache8 MB12 MB8 MB
Cores / Threads8 / 86 / 68 / 8
Transistors10000 Million6900 Million10000 Million
Technology7 nm7 nm7 nm
FeaturesARMv8 Instruction SetARMv8 Instruction SetARMv8 Instruction Set
iGPUApple A12Z Bionic GPUApple A13 Bionic GPUApple A12X Bionic GPU
ArchitectureARMARMARM
Announced

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
min: 40279     avg: 40289     median: 40289 (34%)     max: 40299 Points
min: 33851     avg: 33885     median: 33881 (29%)     max: 33925 Points
39393 Points (33%)
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics
min: 2078     avg: 2803     median: 2958 (35%)     max: 3219 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited Physics
min: 3411     avg: 3780     median: 3877 (44%)     max: 4052 Points
4700 Points (54%)
Geekbench 6.2 - Geekbench 6.2 Single-Core
1313 Points (40%)
Geekbench 6.2 - Geekbench 6.2 Multi-Core
4660 Points (18%)
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.4 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 1117     avg: 1122     median: 1122 (47%)     max: 1127 Points
min: 1326     avg: 1333     median: 1332 (56%)     max: 1342 Points
1120 Points (47%)
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 4707     avg: 4710     median: 4709.5 (8%)     max: 4712 Points
min: 3235     avg: 3381     median: 3378.5 (6%)     max: 3531 Points
4620 Points (8%)
Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 1343     avg: 1343     median: 1343 (6%)     max: 1344 Points
1114 Points (5%)
Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 3242     avg: 3427     median: 3463 (11%)     max: 3575 Points
4661 Points (15%)
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 4984     avg: 4993     median: 4993 (50%)     max: 5002 Points
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 17691     avg: 17866     median: 17866 (20%)     max: 18041 Points
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
646 ms (1%)
min: 545     avg: 562     median: 571 (1%)     max: 573 ms
min: 603     avg: 609     median: 608.5 (1%)     max: 614 ms
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
125 ms (1%)
114 ms (1%)
Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *
114 ms (1%)
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
min: 42372     avg: 42618     median: 42425 (38%)     max: 43057 Points
min: 47288     avg: 48727     median: 48991 (44%)     max: 49388 Points
min: 44425     avg: 45080     median: 45079.5 (41%)     max: 45734 Points
WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
min: 140     avg: 158.3     median: 141 (29%)     max: 194 Points
min: 146     avg: 179.2     median: 183 (38%)     max: 202 Points
min: 172     avg: 177     median: 177 (37%)     max: 182 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 MEM
min: 10494     avg: 12510     median: 12592 (39%)     max: 14443 Points
min: 14010     avg: 14312     median: 14311.5 (44%)     max: 14613 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 UX
min: 77118     avg: 77810     median: 78032 (96%)     max: 78279 Points
min: 62524     avg: 64951     median: 64950.5 (80%)     max: 67377 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 GPU
min: 218738     avg: 219891     median: 218937 (68%)     max: 221998 Points
min: 312218     avg: 317206     median: 317206 (98%)     max: 322193 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 CPU
min: 147281     avg: 149542     median: 148191 (91%)     max: 153154 Points
min: 162798     avg: 163060     median: 163060 (100%)     max: 163321 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 Total Score
min: 456891     avg: 459752     median: 459850 (81%)     max: 462516 Points
min: 552676     avg: 559527     median: 559527 (99%)     max: 566378 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 UX
min: 77253     avg: 77589     median: 77588.5 (65%)     max: 77924 Points
min: 64361     avg: 75201     median: 78294 (65%)     max: 82947 Points
76371 Points (64%)
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 MEM
min: 74998     avg: 92841     median: 92841 (75%)     max: 110684 Points
min: 67691     avg: 75819     median: 74262 (60%)     max: 85504 Points
63887 Points (52%)
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 GPU
min: 373781     avg: 375589     median: 375589 (69%)     max: 377397 Points
min: 190559     avg: 203672     median: 209164 (38%)     max: 211292 Points
350192 Points (64%)
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 CPU
min: 185841     avg: 186014     median: 186014 (67%)     max: 186186 Points
min: 149088     avg: 156731     median: 152919 (55%)     max: 168185 Points
187788 Points (68%)
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 Total Score
min: 712218     avg: 732032     median: 732032 (71%)     max: 751846 Points
min: 489463     avg: 511422     median: 510245 (49%)     max: 534558 Points
678238 Points (65%)
Antutu v9 - AnTuTu v9 Total Score
622382 Points (38%)
Antutu v9 - AnTuTu v9 CPU
147649 Points (40%)
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
min: 650706     avg: 678820     median: 683897 (90%)     max: 701856 Points
min: 756889     avg: 758432     median: 758432 (100%)     max: 759975 Points
CrossMark - CrossMark Overall
min: 776     avg: 835     median: 849 (33%)     max: 864 Points
Power Consumption - Geekbench 5.5 Power Consumption 150cd *
7 Watt (3%)
8.5 Watt (4%)
Power Consumption - Idle Power Consumption 150cd 1min *
2.9 Watt (3%)
2.2 Watt (2%)

Average Benchmarks Apple A12Z Bionic → 100% n=11

Average Benchmarks Apple A13 Bionic → 92% n=11

Average Benchmarks Apple A12X Bionic → 98% n=11

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* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
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Redaktion, 2017-09- 8 (Update: 2023-07- 1)