Apple A12 Bionic vs Apple A18
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
2x 4.05 GHz – Everest4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
Frequency
2490 MHz
4050 MHz
Cores
6
6
Instruction set
ARMv8.3-A
ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache
128 KB
-
L2 cache
0
8 MB
Process
7 nm
3 nm
Transistor count
6.9
-
TDP
6 W
-
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
Graphics
GPU name
Apple A12 GPU
Apple A18 GPU
GPU frequency
1125 MHz
1490 MHz
Execution units
4
5
Shading units
64
128
Vulkan version
1.1
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
12
-
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR4X
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
3750 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
60 Gb/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
Neural Engine
Storage type
NVMe
NVMe
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
-
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
1x 48MP
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
4K at 120FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9- Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
- AAC- AAX- AAX+- AC-3- AIFF- CAF- E-AC-3- MP3- MP4- WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 1000 Mbps
Up to 10000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi
5
7
Bluetooth
5.0
5.3
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Announced
Sep 2018
Sep 2024
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
APL1W81
APL1V08
AI
NPU
-
Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
-
35 TOPS
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
643,548
1,622,118
Geekbench 6
1,301
3,466
Geekbench 6
2,843
8,592
FP32 (float)
576
1,907