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Apple A11 Bionic

The Apple A11 Bionic is a System on a Chip (SoC) from Apple that is found in the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X. It was announced late 2017 and offers 6 cores divided in 2 performance cores and four power efficiency cores. In comparison to the A10X all 6 cores can be used at once, leading to a much higher theoretical performance. In our benchmarks the SoC however is not only faster in multi threaded tests (+77% versus A10 Fusion in Geekbench), but also in single threaded tests (+19%). Apple states 25% more performance compared to the A10 in the iPhone 7.

With 4.3 Billion transistors, the A11 Bionic is a rather big chip especially compared to the Snapdragon 835 (3 Billion) or a Skylake desktop quad-core Soc (1.75 Billion).

CodenameMonsoon / Mistral
SeriesApple Apple A-Series
Clock Rate <=2390 MHz
Level 1 Cache64 KB
Level 2 Cache8 MB
Number of Cores / Threads6 / 6
Transistor Count4300 Million
Manufacturing Technology10 nm
FeaturesARMv8 Instruction Set
GPUApple A11 Bionic GPU
64 Bit64 Bit support
ArchitectureARM
Announcement Date09/12/2017

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
min: 24131     avg: 25135     median: 25633 (21%)     max: 25641 Points
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3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics
min: 1854     avg: 2101     median: 2187 (21%)     max: 2262 Points
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Geekbench 6.4 - Geekbench 6.4 Single-Core
1100 points (27%)
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Geekbench 6.4 - Geekbench 6.4 Multi-Core
2245 points (9%)
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Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.5 64 Bit Single-Core
927 points (36%)
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Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.5 64 Bit Multi-Core
2339 points (4%)
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Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Single-Core
935 points (4%)
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Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
2510 points (8%)
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Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 4162     avg: 4230     median: 4263 (43%)     max: 4265 points
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Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 10255     avg: 10398     median: 10380 (10%)     max: 10558 points
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Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
min: 718     avg: 723     median: 720 (1%)     max: 731 ms
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Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
149 ms (2%)
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Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
min: 34163     avg: 34876     median: 35209 (27%)     max: 35255 Points
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WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
130 Points (23%)
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AnTuTu v6 - AnTuTu v6 Total Score
min: 197851     avg: 206760     median: 204270 (70%)     max: 218158 Points
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AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 MEM
11107 Points (34%)
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AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 UX
50699 Points (62%)
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AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 GPU
94618 Points (29%)
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AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 CPU
99873 Points (61%)
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AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 Total Score
256297 Points (45%)
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PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
min: 447370     avg: 452346     median: 453409 (60%)     max: 456258 Points
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Other CPUs of the series Apple A-Series

» Apple A18 Pro
   6x - 4 GHz
» Apple A17 Pro
   6x 2.11 GHz - 3.78 GHz
» Apple A18
   6x - 3.8 GHz
» Apple A16 Bionic
   6x 2.02 GHz - 3.46 GHz
» Apple A15 Bionic
   6x 2.02 GHz - 3.23 GHz
» Apple A12Z Bionic
   8x - 2.49 GHz
» Apple A12X Bionic
   8x - 2.49 GHz
» Apple A14 Bionic
   6x 1.8 GHz - 3.1 GHz
» Apple A13 Bionic
   6x - 2.66 GHz
» Apple A12 Bionic
   6x - 2.49 GHz
» Apple A11 Bionic
   6x - 2.39 GHz
» Apple A10X Fusion
   6x 2.39 GHz
» Apple A10 Fusion
   4x 2.34 GHz
» Apple A6x
   2x 1.4 GHz
» Apple A6
   2x 1 GHz

Surrounding CPUs

+ Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3
   8x 1.8 GHz - 2.4 GHz
+ Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
   8x - 2.96 GHz
+ Qualcomm Snapdragon 855
   8x 2.84 GHz
+ Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1
   8x 1.8 GHz - 2.2 GHz
» Apple A11 Bionic
   6x - 2.39 GHz
- Qualcomm QCM6490
   8x 1.96 GHz - 2.71 GHz
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G+ 5G
   8x 1.9 GHz - 2.5 GHz
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G 5G
   8x 1.8 GHz - 2.4 GHz
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G 4G
   8x 1.8 GHz - 2.4 GHz
- Samsung Exynos 1380
   8x 2 GHz - 2.4 GHz
Klaus Hinum (Update: 2017-09-24)