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Apple A11 Bionic vs Nintendo Switch

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A11 Bionic
Rank 2 - 25 %
Nintendo Switch
Multi-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A11 Bionic
Rank 2 - 35 %
Nintendo Switch
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

Apple A11 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz
1,093
Nintendo Switch
8C / 8T · 1.75 GHz
270
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Apple A11 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz
1,997
Nintendo Switch
8C / 8T · 1.00 GHz
702
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A11 Bionic
Apple A11
409
Nintendo Switch
NVIDIA Tegra X1 (Maxwell)
393

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Apple A11 BionicNintendo Switch
FamilyApple A series (27)NVIDIA Tegra (2)
CPU groupApple A11 (1)NVIDIA Tegra X1 (2)
ArchitectureA11Cortex-A57/-A53
Technology10 nm20 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletNotebook
Socket
PredecessorApple A10 Fusion
SuccessorApple A12 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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Apple A11 BionicNintendo Switch
CPU Cores / Threads6 / 68 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1: 2x Monsoon
2.39 GHz
4x Cortex-A57
1.00 - 1.75 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 4x Mistral
1.19 GHz
4x Cortex-A53
1.00 - 1.75 GHz
L2-Cache8.00 MB2.50 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Apple A11 BionicNintendo Switch
GPU nameApple A11NVIDIA Tegra X1 (Maxwell)
GPU frequency1.07 GHz0.30 - 0.77 GHz
CUs / Shader12 / 1922 / 256
Raytracing
Max. displays11
Max. GPU Memory3 GB2 GB
Technology10 nm20 nm
Release dateQ3/2017Q1/2017

NPU AI performance

Wischen
Apple A11 BionicNintendo Switch
AI hardwareApple Neural Engine
AI specifications2 Neural cores @ 0.6 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Apple A11 BionicNintendo Switch
MemoryLPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
LPDDR4-3200 (25.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory3 GB4 GB
Memory channels12
ECCNoNo
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

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Apple A11 BionicNintendo Switch
TDP8 W5 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down5 W
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen
Apple A11 BionicNintendo Switch
Chip designChipletChiplet
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOS
Instruction setArmv8-A (64 bit)Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release dateQ3/2017Q1/2017
Release price
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

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Apple A11 Bionic
Apple A11 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz
Nintendo Switch
Nintendo Switch
8C / 8T · 1.00 - 1.75 GHz

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