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Apple A12 Bionic vs NVIDIA Tegra X1

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A12 Bionic
Rank 2 - 24 %
NVIDIA Tegra X1
Multi-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A12 Bionic
Rank 2 - 34 %
NVIDIA Tegra X1
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
1,286
NVIDIA Tegra X1
8C / 8T · 2.00 GHz
308
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
2,353
NVIDIA Tegra X1
8C / 8T · 2.00 GHz
798
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12 Bionic
Apple A12
576
NVIDIA Tegra X1
NVIDIA Tegra X1 (Maxwell)
512

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicNVIDIA Tegra X1
FamilyApple A series (27)NVIDIA Tegra (2)
CPU groupApple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)NVIDIA Tegra X1 (2)
ArchitectureA12Cortex-A57/-A53
Technology7 nm20 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletNotebook
Socket
PredecessorApple A11 Bionic
SuccessorApple A13 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicNVIDIA Tegra X1
CPU Cores / Threads6 / 68 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1: 2x Vortex
2.49 GHz
4x Cortex-A57
2.00 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 4x Tempest
1.59 GHz
4x Cortex-A53
2.00 GHz
L2-Cache8.00 MB2.50 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicNVIDIA Tegra X1
GPU nameApple A12NVIDIA Tegra X1 (Maxwell)
GPU frequency1.13 GHz0.30 - 1.00 GHz
CUs / Shader16 / 2562 / 256
Raytracing
Max. displays11
Max. GPU Memory4 GB2 GB
Technology7 nm20 nm
Release dateQ3/2018Q1/2017

NPU AI performance

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicNVIDIA Tegra X1
AI hardwareApple Neural Engine
AI specifications8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicNVIDIA Tegra X1
MemoryLPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
LPDDR4-3200 (25.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory4 GB8 GB
Memory channels12
ECCNoNo
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicNVIDIA Tegra X1
TDP6 W7 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down5 W
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicNVIDIA Tegra X1
Chip designChipletChiplet
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOS
Instruction setArmv8-A (64 bit)Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release dateQ3/2018Q1/2017
Release price
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

Your rating

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Apple A12 Bionic
Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
NVIDIA Tegra X1
NVIDIA Tegra X1
8C / 8T · 2.00 GHz

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