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Apple A11 Bionic vs Apple M2

Last updated: 2026-06-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 46 %

Apple A11 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M2

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 26 %

Apple A11 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M2

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

1,093

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

2,596

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

1,997

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

10,062

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

6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

932

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

1,874

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

6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

2,569

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

8,853

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A11

409

Apple M2 (10 Core)

3,550

AI performance (NPU)

6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

0.6 TOPS

8C / 8T · 0.66 GHz

15.8 TOPS

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Apple M2
Family	Apple A series (27)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Apple A11 (1)	Apple M2 (8)
Architecture	A11	M2
Technology	10 nm	5 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Notebook
Socket
Predecessor	Apple A10 Fusion	Apple M1
Successor	Apple A12 Bionic	Apple M3

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Apple M2
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x Monsoon 2.39 GHz	4x Avalanche 0.66 - 3.50 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Mistral 1.19 GHz	4x Blizzard 0.60 - 2.42 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB	20.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Apple M2
GPU name	Apple A11	Apple M2 (10 Core)
GPU frequency	1.07 GHz	0.45 - 1.40 GHz
CUs / Shader	12 / 192	160 / 1280
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	1	2
Max. GPU Memory	3 GB	24 GB
Technology	10 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q3/2017	Q2/2022

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Apple M2
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	2 Neural cores @ 0.6 TOPS	16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Apple M2
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	3 GB	24 GB
Memory channels	1	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		4.0
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Apple M2
TDP	8 W	20 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up		30 W
TDP down		10 W
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Apple M2
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	iOS	macOS, iPadOS
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions		Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q3/2017	Q2/2022
Release price
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple A11 Bionic is 3.6 stars (54 ratings), while Apple M2 has received 4.4 stars (743 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A11 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M2
8C / 8T · 0.66 - 3.50 GHz

★★★★★