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Apple A12 Bionic

Apple A12 Bionic

The 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.

SeriesApple Apple A-Series
Series: Apple A-Series
Apple A12X Bionic (compare)8 / 8
» Apple A12 Bionic - 2490 MHz6 / 6
Clock Rate <=2490 MHz
Level 1 Cache256 KB
Level 2 Cache8 MB
Number of Cores / Threads6 / 6
Transistor Count6900 Million
Manufacturing Technology7 nm
FeaturesARMv8 Instruction Set
GPUApple A12 Bionic GPU
64 Bit64 Bit support
Announcement Date09/12/2018

Benchmarks

3DMark - Ice Storm Unlimited Physics 1280x720 offscreen
min: 27400     avg: 27510     median: 27413 (35%)     max: 27717 Points
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3DMark - Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics 2560x1440
min: 2723     avg: 2917     median: 2998 (68%)     max: 3030 Points
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3DMark - Sling Shot OpenGL ES 3.0 Unlimited Physics 2560x1440
min: 2880     avg: 2931     median: 2952 (63%)     max: 2961 Points
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Geekbench 4.1/4.2 - 64 Bit Single-Core Score
min: 4750     avg: 4782.7     median: 4774 (75%)     max: 4824 Points
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Geekbench 4.1/4.2 - 64 Bit Multi-Core Score
min: 11244     avg: 11372.7     median: 11276 (31%)     max: 11598 Points
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Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Total Score *
min: 603.1     avg: 607.5     median: 609.1 (1%)     max: 610.3 ms
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Octane V2 - Total Score
min: 42897     avg: 43097     median: 43114 (89%)     max: 43280 Points
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PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - CPU Tests
min: 482773     avg: 484485     median: 484485 (64%)     max: 486197 Points
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Reviews for the Apple Apple A-Series A12 Bionic processor

Apple iPhone XR (Apple A12 Bionic GPU, 6.1")
» Apple iPhone XR Smartphone Review - Review
» Apple iPhone Xr - External Review

Apple iPhone XS (Apple A12 Bionic GPU, 5.8")
» Apple iPhone XS Smartphone Review - Review
» Apple iPhone XS - External Review

Apple iPhone Xs Max (Apple A12 Bionic GPU, 6.5")
» Apple iPhone XS Max Smartphone Review - Review
» Apple iPhone Xs Max - External Review

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Other CPUs of the series Apple Apple A-Series

Surrounding CPUs

- Intel Core m3 8100Y
   1.1 GHz / 0.5 MB + 4 MB
- Intel Core i5 7Y57
   1.2 GHz / 0.5 MB + 4 MB
- Intel Core i5 7Y54
   1.2 GHz / 0.5 MB + 4 MB
- Intel Core i3 6157U
   2.4 GHz / 0.5 MB + 3 MB
- Intel Core i3 7100U
   2.4 GHz / 0.5 MB + 3 MB
+ Qualcomm Snapdragon 855
   2.84 GHz / KB + 5120 KB
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   0 GHz / KB
+ Apple Apple A-Series A11 Bionic
   0 GHz / 8192 KB
+ Intel Core i3 6100U
   2.3 GHz / 512 KB + 3072 KB
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Klaus Hinum (Update: 2018-09-13)