Apple A12 Bionic vs Apple A18
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 6 cores 4040MHz Apple A18 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A18 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7894 TFLOPS vs 0.576 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (60GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
Higher Frequency (4040MHz vs 2490MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)
Released 6 years late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A12 Bionic
643548
Apple A18
+139%
1539646
FP32 (float)
Apple A12 Bionic
576
Apple A18
+210%
1789
CPU
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Architecture
2x 4.04 GHz –
4x 2 GHz –
2490 MHz
Frequency
4040 MHz
6
Cores
6
ARMv8.3-A
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
8 MB
L2 cache
-
7 nm
Process
3 nm
6.9
Transistor count
-
6 W
TDP
-
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A12 GPU
GPU name
Apple A18 GPU
1125 MHz
GPU frequency
1398 MHz
4
Execution units
5
64
Shading units
128
4
Max size
8
0.576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
1.7894 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
-
2.0
OpenCL version
-
12
DirectX version
-
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR5X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
7500 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
60 GB/s
AI
-
NPU
Neural Engine
-
Theoretical Performance
35 TOPS
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
NVMe
Storage type
NVMe
2688 x 1242
Max display resolution
-
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 24FPS, 4K at 120FPS
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9, 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, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Intel XMM 7560
Modem
Snapdragon X75
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
No
5G support
Yes
Up to 1000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 10000 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
7
5.0
Bluetooth
5.3
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Sep 2018
Announced
Sep 2024
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W81
Model number
-
