Apple A12 Bionic vs MediaTek Helio X30
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 10 cores 2600MHz MediaTek Helio X30 . 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 0.2176 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 27.81GB/s)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 10nm)
Released 1 years and 7 months late
MediaTek Helio X30 's Advantages
Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2490MHz)
Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)
Score
Benchmark
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A12 Bionic
+287%
1301
MediaTek Helio X30
336
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A12 Bionic
+154%
2843
MediaTek Helio X30
1115
FP32 (float)
Apple A12 Bionic
+165%
576
MediaTek Helio X30
217
CPU
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Architecture
2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A35
2490 MHz
Frequency
2600 MHz
6
Cores
10
ARMv8.3-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
8 MB
L2 cache
2 MB
7 nm
Process
10 nm
6.9
Transistor count
3
6 W
TDP
5 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A12 GPU
GPU name
PowerVR GT7400 Plus
1125 MHz
GPU frequency
850 MHz
4
Execution units
4
64
Shading units
32
4
Max size
8
0.576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.2176 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.1
2.0
OpenCL version
2.0
12
DirectX version
11.2
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
1866 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
27.81 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
No
NVMe
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
2688 x 1242
Max display resolution
2560 x 1600
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 28MP, 2x 16MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1
AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
Audio codecs
AMR-NB, ADPCM, AMR-WB, OGG, WAV, MP3, MP2, AAC, AMR-NB, LAC, APE, AAC-plus v1, AAC-plus v2, WMA, ADPCM
Intel XMM 7560
Modem
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 10
No
5G support
No
Up to 1000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 450 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 50 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
5
5.0
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Sep 2018
Announced
Feb 2017
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W81
Model number
MT6799
