Apple A12 Bionic vs Apple A11 Bionic
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral
Frequency
2490 MHz
2390 MHz
Cores
6
6
Instruction set
ARMv8.3-A
ARMv8-A
L1 cache
128 KB
64 KB
L2 cache
0
0
Process
7 nm
10 nm
Transistor count
6.9
4.3
TDP
6 W
8 W
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
Graphics
GPU name
Apple A12 GPU
Apple A11 GPU
GPU frequency
1125 MHz
1066 MHz
Execution units
4
3
Shading units
64
64
Vulkan version
1.1
1.0
OpenCL version
2.0
2.1
DirectX version
12
12
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR4X
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
2133 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
34.1 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
Apple M10
Storage type
NVMe
NVMe
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
2436 x 1125
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
LTE Cat. 12
5G support
No
No
Download speed
Up to 1000 Mbps
Up to 600 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi
5
5
Bluetooth
5.0
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Announced
Sep 2018
Sep 2017
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
APL1W81
APL1W72
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
643,548
409,550
Geekbench 6
1,301
1,097
Geekbench 6
2,843
2,357
FP32 (float)
576
409