
Apple iPad Pro 12.9 (2020) Review: Fine-tuning the Flagship
Apple A12Z Bionic | Apple A12Z Bionic GPU | 12.90" | 641 g
The Apple A12Z Bionic graphics card is the integrated GPU in the Apple A12Z Bionic SoC in the 2020 iPad Pro models. It was designed by Apple and not licensed by PowerVR and should be based on the same architecture as the A12X and A12 GPUs with more cores. The A12Z offer 8 GPU cores, where the older A12X in the 2018 iPad Pro series offered 7. Interestingly, Apple did not choose to create a new variant of the current Apple A13 chip used in the iPhone 11 models.
The architecture should be similar to the older PowerVR graphics cards like the A10 GPU, but currently Apple is not disclosing any information about the architecture.
The performance should be slightly faster than the old iPad pro models and therefore significantly faster than the iPhone SoCs and Android competitors.
The chip should be still manufactured in 7nm at TSMC and offer a very good efficiency.
Apple A12 Series
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Pipelines | 8 - unified | |||||||||
Shared Memory | no | |||||||||
technology | 7 nm | |||||||||
Date of Announcement | 18.03.2020 |
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The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | |
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PUBG Mobile | 31 | |||||
Asphalt 9: Legends | 60 | |||||
< 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps | | | 1 1 | | | |
For more games that might be playable and a list of all games and graphics cards visit our Gaming List
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