Apple A6x vs Apple A12 Bionic
Apple A6x
► remove from comparisonThe Apple A6x is a dual-core-SoC (System on a Chip) with ARM compatible CPU cores (ARMv7s instruction set). Both can be clocked at up to 1400 MHz depending on the load. It is used in the iPad 4 and compared to the A6 in the iPhone 5, the A6x offers a faster GPU (PowerVR SGX544MP4).
The CPU-Performance of the A6x is similar to the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro MSM8960T, while the GPU is about as fast as the Adreno 320.
Apple A12 Bionic
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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.
| Model | Apple A6x | Apple A12 Bionic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Series | Apple Apple A-Series | Apple Apple A-Series | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Clock | 1400 MHz | <=2490 MHz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cores / Threads | 2 | 6 / 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Technology | 32 nm | 7 nm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Architecture | ARM | ARM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| L1 Cache | 256 KB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| L2 Cache | 8 MB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Transistors | 6900 Million | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Features | ARMv8 Instruction Set | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| iGPU | Apple A12 Bionic GPU | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Benchmarks
Average Benchmarks Apple A6x → 100% n=1
Average Benchmarks Apple A12 Bionic → 311% n=1
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
1 This benchmark is not used for the average calculation
