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Apple A12Z Bionic

Apple A12Z Bionic

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).

CodenameVortex, Tempest
SeriesApple Apple A-Series

Series: Apple A-Series Vortex, Tempest

Apple A12Z Bionic « - 2.49 GHz8 / 8 cores Vortex, Tempest
Apple A12X Bionic compare - 2.49 GHz8 / 8 cores Vortex, Tempest
Clock Rate <=2490 MHz
Level 1 Cache2 MB
Level 2 Cache8 MB
Number of Cores / Threads8 / 8
Transistor Count10000 Million
Manufacturing Technology7 nm
FeaturesARMv8 Instruction Set
GPUApple A12Z Bionic GPU
64 Bit64 Bit support
ArchitectureARM
Announcement Date03/18/2020

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
min: 40279     avg: 40289     median: 40289 (33%)     max: 40299 Points
Geekbench 6.4 - Geekbench 6.4 Single-Core
1340 points (33%)
Geekbench 6.4 - Geekbench 6.4 Multi-Core
4700 points (18%)
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Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.5 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 1117     avg: 1122     median: 1122 (44%)     max: 1127 points
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Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.5 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 4707     avg: 4710     median: 4709.5 (8%)     max: 4712 points
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Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
646 ms (1%)
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
125 ms (1%)
Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *
114 ms (1%)
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
min: 42372     avg: 42618     median: 42425 (33%)     max: 43057 Points
WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
min: 140     avg: 158.3     median: 141 (25%)     max: 194 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 UX
min: 77253     avg: 77589     median: 77588.5 (65%)     max: 77924 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 MEM
min: 74998     avg: 92841     median: 92841 (75%)     max: 110684 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 GPU
min: 373781     avg: 375589     median: 375589 (69%)     max: 377397 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 CPU
min: 185841     avg: 186014     median: 186014 (67%)     max: 186186 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 Total Score
min: 712218     avg: 732032     median: 732032 (71%)     max: 751846 Points
- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
red legend - Average benchmark values for this graphics card
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance

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Other CPUs of the series Apple A-Series

» Apple A18 Pro
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» Apple A17 Pro
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» Apple A16 Bionic
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» 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

+ MediaTek Dimensity 9200+
   8x 2 GHz - 3.35 GHz
+ MediaTek Dimensity 9200
   8x 1.8 GHz - 3.05 GHz
+ Google Tensor G4
   8x 1.95 GHz
+ MediaTek Dimensity 9000+
   8x 1.8 GHz - 3.2 GHz
+ MediaTek Dimensity 9000
   8x 1.8 GHz - 3.05 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
- MediaTek Dimensity 8400
   8x 2.1 GHz - 3.25 GHz
- HiSilicon Kirin 9020
   12x 1.6 GHz - 2.5 GHz
- HiSilicon Kirin T92
   12x 1.6 GHz - 2.5 GHz
Klaus Hinum (Update: 2020-03-18)