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Apple A12 Bionic vs Apple M1 (7-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-06-02

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 59 %

Apple A12 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 (7-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 32 %

Apple A12 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 (7-GPU)

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

1,286

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,369

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

2,353

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

8,576

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

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

1,116

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,742

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

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

2,731

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,650

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12

576

Apple M1 (7 Core)

2,290

AI performance (NPU)

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

5.0 TOPS

8C / 8T · 0.60 GHz

11.0 TOPS

More benchmarks

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

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
Family	Apple A series (27)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)	Apple M1 (9)
Architecture	A12	M1
Technology	7 nm	5 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Notebook
Socket
Predecessor	Apple A11 Bionic
Successor	Apple A13 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x Vortex 2.49 GHz	4x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Tempest 1.59 GHz	4x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB	16.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
GPU name	Apple A12	Apple M1 (7 Core)
GPU frequency	1.13 GHz	0.39 - 1.30 GHz
CUs / Shader	16 / 256	112 / 896
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	1	2
Max. GPU Memory	4 GB	8 GB
Technology	7 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q3/2018	Q4/2020

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS	16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	4 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	1	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		4.0
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
TDP	6 W	18 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up		25 W
TDP down		10 W
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	iOS	macOS
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions		Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q3/2018	Q4/2020
Release price
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User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple A12 Bionic is 3.4 stars (106 ratings), while Apple M1 (7-GPU) has received 4.7 stars (71 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M1 (7-GPU)
8C / 8T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★