Apple A12 Bionic vs Apple A11 Bionic
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 6 cores 2390MHz Apple A11 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A12 Bionic 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.576 TFLOPS vs 0.4093 TFLOPS )
Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 2390MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 10nm)
Lower TDP (6W vs 8W)
Released 1 years late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A12 Bionic
+57%
643548
Apple A11 Bionic
409550
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A12 Bionic
+18%
1301
Apple A11 Bionic
1097
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A12 Bionic
+20%
2843
Apple A11 Bionic
2357
FP32 (float)
Apple A12 Bionic
+40%
576
Apple A11 Bionic
409
CPU
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Architecture
2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon
4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral
2490 MHz
Frequency
2390 MHz
6
Cores
6
ARMv8.3-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
8 MB
L2 cache
8 MB
7 nm
Process
10 nm
6.9
Transistor count
4.3
6 W
TDP
8 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A12 GPU
GPU name
Apple A11 GPU
1125 MHz
GPU frequency
1066 MHz
4
Execution units
3
64
Shading units
64
4
Max size
4
0.576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.4093 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.0
2.0
OpenCL version
2.1
12
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Apple M10
NVMe
Storage type
NVMe
2688 x 1242
Max display resolution
2436 x 1125
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Intel XMM 7560
Modem
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 12
No
5G support
No
Up to 1000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
5
5.0
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Sep 2018
Announced
Sep 2017
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W81
Model number
APL1W72
