Apple M4 iPad vs Apple A12Z Bionic
We compared two versions of tablet SoCs: 9 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
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (4.09 TFLOPS vs 1.106 TFLOPS )
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
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Apple M4 iPad
+269%
4090
Apple A12Z Bionic
1106
CPU
4x 4.4 GHz –
5x 2.85 GHz –
5x 2.85 GHz –
Architecture
4x 2.5 GHz – Vortex
4x 1.59 GHz – Tempest
4x 1.59 GHz – Tempest
4400 MHz
Frequency
2500 MHz
9
Cores
8
ARMv9.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
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
1598 MHz
GPU frequency
1340 MHz
10
Execution units
64
128
Shading units
512
24
Max size
6
4.09 TFLOPS
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
38 TOPS
Theoretical Performance
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Apple Neural Engine
Neural processor (NPU)
Apple M12
NVMe
Storage type
NVMe
2064 x 2752
Max display resolution
2732 x 2048
-
Max camera resolution
1x 12MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
Video codecs
H.264
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Audio codecs
Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC v2, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+
Snapdragon X70
Modem
Intel XMM 7560
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 10000 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1000 Mbps
Up to 7500 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