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Apple A12X Bionic vs Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-06-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 55 %

Apple A12X Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 19 %

Apple A12X Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

991 pts

24C / 24T · 3.50 GHz

1,695 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,539 pts

24C / 24T · 3.50 GHz

28,570 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,341

24C / 24T · 3.50 GHz

2,689

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,745

24C / 24T · 3.50 GHz

21,450

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

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,124

24C / 24T · 3.50 GHz

1,940

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

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,718

24C / 24T · 3.50 GHz

27,860

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12X

1,008

Apple M2 Ultra (76 Core)

26,980

AI performance (NPU)

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

5.0 TOPS

24C / 24T · 0.66 GHz

31.6 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

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A12X Bionic	Apple M2 Ultra (76-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 A10X Fusion	Apple M1 Ultra (64-GPU)
Successor		Apple M3 Ultra (32-CPU 80-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A12X Bionic	Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	24 / 24
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x Vortex 2.49 GHz	16x Avalanche 0.66 - 3.50 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Tempest 1.59 GHz	8x Blizzard 0.60 - 2.42 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB	72.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A12X Bionic	Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
GPU name	Apple A12X	Apple M2 Ultra (76 Core)
GPU frequency	1.13 GHz	0.45 - 1.40 GHz
CUs / Shader	28 / 448	1216 / 9728
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	1	8
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB	192 GB
Technology	7 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q3/2018	Q2/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A12X Bionic	Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS	32 Neural cores @ 31.6 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A12X Bionic	Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (819.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory	6 GB	192 GB
Memory channels	2	8
ECC	No	No
PCIe		4.0 x 64
PCIe Bandwidth		126.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A12X Bionic	Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
TDP	15 W	80 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A12X Bionic	Apple M2 Ultra (76-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	Q2/2023
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 A12X Bionic is 4.2 stars (81 ratings), while Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU) has received 4.9 stars (425 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A12X Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
24C / 24T · 0.66 - 3.50 GHz

★★★★★