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Apple A12 Bionic vs Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-07-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 54 %

Apple A12 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 21 %

Apple A12 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

1,286

10C / 10T · 3.50 GHz

2,689

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

2,353

10C / 10T · 3.50 GHz

12,084

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

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

1,116

10C / 10T · 3.50 GHz

1,874

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

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

2,731

10C / 10T · 3.50 GHz

12,224

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12

576

Apple M2 Pro (16 Core)

5,680

AI performance (NPU)

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

5.0 TOPS

10C / 10T · 0.66 GHz

15.8 TOPS

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 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

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)
Family	Apple A series (27)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)	Apple M2 (8)
Architecture	A12	M2
Technology	7 nm	5 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Notebook
Socket
Predecessor	Apple A11 Bionic	Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-GPU)
Successor	Apple A13 Bionic	Apple M3 Pro (11-CPU 14-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	10 / 10
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x Vortex 2.49 GHz	6x Avalanche 0.66 - 3.50 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Tempest 1.59 GHz	4x Blizzard 0.60 - 2.42 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB	28.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)
GPU name	Apple A12	Apple M2 Pro (16 Core)
GPU frequency	1.13 GHz	0.45 - 1.40 GHz
CUs / Shader	16 / 256	256 / 2048
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	1	3
Max. GPU Memory	4 GB	32 GB
Technology	7 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q3/2018	Q1/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS	16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	4 GB	32 GB
Memory channels	1	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		4.0
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)
TDP	6 W	30 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)
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	Q3/2018	Q1/2023
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 A12 Bionic is 3.4 stars (106 ratings), while Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) has received 4.4 stars (100 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)
10C / 10T · 0.66 - 3.50 GHz

★★★★★