Apple A9 vs Apple A12 Bionic
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 vs. 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A9 's Advantages
Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)
Apple A12 Bionic 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.576 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)
Higher Frequency (2490MHz vs 1850MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)
Released 3 years late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A9
285954
Apple A12 Bionic
+125%
643548
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A9
623
Apple A12 Bionic
+108%
1301
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A9
957
Apple A12 Bionic
+197%
2843
FP32 (float)
Apple A9
0.249 TFLOPS
Apple A12 Bionic
+131%
0.576 TFLOPS
AnTuTu 9
CPU
2x 1.85 GHz – Twister
Architecture
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
1850 MHz
Frequency
2490 MHz
2
Cores
6
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.3-A
L1 cache
3 MB
L2 cache
8 MB
0
L3 cache
-
14 nm
Process
7 nm
2
Transistor count
6.9
5 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
PowerVR GT7600
GPU name
Apple A12 GPU
650 MHz
GPU frequency
1125 MHz
6
Execution units
4
32
Shading units
64
4
Max size
4
0.2496 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.576 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.1
1.2
OpenCL version
2.0
11
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR4
Memory type
LPDDR4X
1333 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
2x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
14.9 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
AI
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Multimedia (ISP)
Apple M9
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
NVMe
Storage type
NVMe
2048 x 1536
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
4K at 30FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
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4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
Qualcomm MDM9635M
Modem
Intel XMM 7560
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 6
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
No
5G support
No
Up to 450 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1000 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
5
4.2
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Sep 2015
Announced
Sep 2018
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1022
Model number
APL1W81
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