Apple M4 iPad vs Apple A12Z Bionic

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Apple M4 iPad Apple A12Z Bionic

We compared two versions of tablet SoCs: 10 cores 4400MHz Apple M4 iPad vs. 8 cores 2500MHz Apple A12Z Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple M4 iPad Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (120GB/s vs 68.2GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4400MHz vs 2500MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Apple A12Z Bionic Advantages

Lower TDP (15W vs 20W)

Score

Apple M4 iPad

VS

Apple A12Z Bionic

CPU

4x 4.4 GHz –
6x 2.88 GHz –

Architecture

4x 2.5 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.59 GHz – Tempest

4400 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

10

Cores

8

16 MB

L2 cache

8 MB

3 nm

Process

7 nm

28

Transistor count

10

20 W

TDP

15 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple M4 GPU

GPU name

Apple A12Z GPU

1470 MHz

GPU frequency

1340 MHz

10

Execution units

64

128

Shading units

512

24

Max size

6

-

FLOPS

1.106 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

7500 MHz

Memory frequency

4266 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 64 Bit

120 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

68.2 GB/s

AI

Apple Neural Engine

NPU

Apple M12

38 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Apple Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple M12

NVMe

Storage type

NVMe

-

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

-

Max camera resolution

1x 12MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

Video codecs

H.264

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC v2, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+

Modem

Intel XMM 7560

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

No

-

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

-

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.3

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

May 2024

Announced

Mar 2020

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

APL1083

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