Apple A12 Bionic vs Apple A9
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2490MHz Apple A12 Bionic vs. 2 cores 1850MHz Apple A9 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
Apple A12 Bionic 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
Apple A9 Advantages
Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Apple A12 Bionic
+125%
643548
Apple A9
285954
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple A12 Bionic
+108%
1301
Apple A9
623
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple A12 Bionic
+197%
2843
Apple A9
957
FP32 (float)
Apple A12 Bionic
+131%
576
Apple A9
249
CPU
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Architecture
2x 1.85 GHz – Twister
2490 MHz
Frequency
1850 MHz
6
Cores
2
ARMv8.3-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
8 MB
L2 cache
3 MB
-
L3 cache
0
7 nm
Process
14 nm
6.9
Transistor count
2
6 W
TDP
5 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Apple A12 GPU
GPU name
PowerVR GT7600
1125 MHz
GPU frequency
650 MHz
4
Execution units
6
64
Shading units
32
4
Max size
4
0.576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.2496 TFLOPS
1.1
Vulkan version
1.1
2.0
OpenCL version
1.2
12
DirectX version
11
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR4
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
1333 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 16 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
14.9 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Apple M9
NVMe
Storage type
NVMe
2688 x 1242
Max display resolution
2048 x 1536
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
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
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
Qualcomm MDM9635M
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 18
4G support
LTE Cat. 6
No
5G support
No
Up to 1000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 450 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
5
Wi-Fi
5
5.0
Bluetooth
4.2
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Sep 2018
Announced
Sep 2015
Flagship
Class
Flagship
APL1W81
Model number
APL1022
