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Apple A10 Fusion vs Apple A12X Bionic

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 2 - 66 %
Apple A10 Fusion
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A12X Bionic
Multi-core performance
Rank 2 - 29 %
Apple A10 Fusion
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A12X Bionic
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

Apple A10 Fusion
4C / 4T · 2.34 GHz
853
Apple A12X Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
1,341
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Apple A10 Fusion
4C / 4T · 2.34 GHz
1,207
Apple A12X Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
4,745
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

Apple A10 Fusion
4C / 4T · 2.34 GHz
776
Apple A12X Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
1,124
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Apple A10 Fusion
4C / 4T · 2.34 GHz
1,422
Apple A12X Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
4,718
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A10 Fusion
Apple A10
346
Apple A12X Bionic
Apple A12X
1,008
AnTuTu 8 Benchmark

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark

Apple A10 Fusion
4C / 4T · 2.34 GHz
227,804 pts
Apple A12X Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
713,640 pts

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Apple A10 FusionApple A12X Bionic
FamilyApple A series (27)Apple A series (27)
CPU groupApple A10/A10X (2)Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)
ArchitectureA10A12
Technology10 nm7 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletSmartphone / Tablet
Socket
PredecessorApple A9Apple A10X Fusion
SuccessorApple A11 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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Apple A10 FusionApple A12X Bionic
CPU Cores / Threads4 / 48 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1: 2x Hurricane
2.34 GHz
4x Vortex
2.49 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 2x Zephyr
1.09 GHz
4x Tempest
1.59 GHz
L2-Cache3.00 MB8.00 MB
L3-Cache4.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Apple A10 FusionApple A12X Bionic
GPU nameApple A10Apple A12X
GPU frequency0.90 GHz1.13 GHz
CUs / Shader24 / 19228 / 448
Raytracing
Max. displays11
Max. GPU Memory4 GB6 GB
Technology16 nm7 nm
Release dateQ3/2016Q3/2018

NPU AI performance

Wischen
Apple A10 FusionApple A12X Bionic
AI hardwareApple Neural Engine
AI specifications8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Apple A10 FusionApple A12X Bionic
MemoryLPDDR4-3200 (25.6 GB/s)
LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory3 GB6 GB
Memory channels12
ECCNoNo
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen
Apple A10 FusionApple A12X Bionic
TDP5 W15 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen
Apple A10 FusionApple A12X Bionic
Chip designChipletChiplet
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOSiOS
Instruction setArmv8-A (64 bit)Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release dateQ3/2016Q3/2018
Release price
Documents

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Apple A10 Fusion
Apple A10 Fusion
4C / 4T · 2.34 GHz
Apple A12X Bionic
Apple A12X Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

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