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).
Series | Apple Apple A-Series |
Codename | Monsoon / Mistral |
Clock Rate | <=2390 MHz |
Level 1 Cache | 64 KB |
Level 2 Cache | 8 MB |
Number of Cores / Threads | 6 / 6 |
Transistor Count | 4300 Million |
Manufacturing Technology | 10 nm |
Features | ARMv8 Instruction Set |
GPU | Apple A11 Bionic GPU |
64 Bit | 64 Bit support |
Architecture | ARM |
Announcement Date | 09/12/2017 |