Apple A12 Bionic vs Apple M5 (iPad) Which One is Better

CPU

Architecture

2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest

4x 4.6 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz –

Frequency

2490 MHz

4600 MHz

Cores

6

10

Instruction set

ARMv8.3-A

ARMv9.2-A

L1 cache

128 KB

320 KB

L2 cache

0

16 MB

Process

7 nm

3 nm

Transistor count

6.9

-

TDP

6 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

GPU name

Apple A12 GPU

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GPU frequency

1125 MHz

-

Execution units

4

-

Shading units

64

-

Vulkan version

1.1

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12

-

Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR4X

LPDDR5X

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4800 MHz

Bus

4x 16 Bit

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

153 Gb/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

-

Storage type

NVMe

Max display resolution

2688 x 1242

2752 x 2064

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

-

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9

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. 24

5G support

No

Yes

Download speed

Up to 1000 Mbps

-

Upload speed

Up to 350 Mbps

-

Wi-Fi

5

7

Bluetooth

5.0

6.0

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Announced

Sep 2018

Oct 2025

Class

Flagship

Model number

APL1W81

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AI

NPU

-

Apple Neural Engine

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

643,548

3,155,649

Geekbench 6

1,301

4,175

Geekbench 6

2,843

15,577

FP32 (float)

576

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