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Apple A12X Bionic vs Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-GPU)
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Benchmarks
Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks
Single-core performance
Multi-core performance
Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance
Apple A12X Bionic
65 %
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz
Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance
Apple A12X Bionic
37 %
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz
Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance
Apple A12X Bionic
56 %
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance
Apple A12X Bionic
38 %
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance
Apple A12X Bionic
64 %
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance
Apple A12X Bionic
38 %
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
Apple A12X Bionic
22 %
Apple A12X
Apple M1 Pro (14 Core)
AI performance (NPU)
Apple A12X Bionic
45 %
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
10C / 10T · 0.60 GHz
More benchmarks
Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries
218 entries
Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries
219 entries
Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries
427 entries
Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries
422 entries
Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries
690 entries
Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries
665 entries
Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries
1,989 entries
Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries
1,927 entries
Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries
2,512 entries
Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries
2,483 entries
FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries
2,219 entries
AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries
118 entries
Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries
213 entries
PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries
2,504 entries
CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries
140 entries
AI performance (NPU)
218 entries
218 entries
Specifications
At a glance
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Wischen
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Apple A12X Bionic | Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-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 A10X Fusion | |
| Successor | Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
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Wischen
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Apple A12X Bionic | Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| CPU Cores / Threads | 8 / 8 | 10 / 10 |
| Hyperthreading / SMT | ✗ | ✗ |
| Core architecture | hybrid (big.LITTLE) | hybrid (big.LITTLE) |
| Core Cluster 1: | 4x Vortex 2.49 GHz |
8x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz |
| Core Cluster 2: | 4x Tempest 1.59 GHz |
2x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz |
| L2-Cache | 8.00 MB | 28.00 MB |
| L3-Cache | ||
| Overclocking | ✗ | ✗ |
Integrated graphics (iGPU)
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Wischen
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Apple A12X Bionic | Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| GPU name | Apple A12X | Apple M1 Pro (14 Core) |
| GPU frequency | 1.13 GHz | 0.39 - 1.30 GHz |
| CUs / Shader | 28 / 448 | 224 / 1792 |
| Raytracing | ✗ | ✗ |
| Max. displays | 1 | 3 |
| Max. GPU Memory | 6 GB | 32 GB |
| Technology | 7 nm | 5 nm |
| Release date | Q3/2018 | Q3/2021 |
NPU AI performance
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Wischen
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Apple A12X Bionic | Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-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
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Wischen
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Apple A12X Bionic | Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| Memory | LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s) | LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s) |
| Max. Memory | 6 GB | 32 GB |
| Memory channels | 2 | 2 |
| ECC | No | No |
| PCIe | 4.0 | |
| PCIe Bandwidth |
Thermal Management
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Apple A12X Bionic | Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| TDP | 15 W | 45 W |
| TDP (PL2) | ||
| TDP up | ||
| TDP down | ||
| T. junction max. |
Technical details
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Wischen
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Apple A12X Bionic | Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-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 | Q3/2021 |
| Release price | ||
| Documents |
User Reviews
Your rating
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