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Apple A12X Bionic vs Apple M4 (8-CPU)

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 - 41 %

Apple A12X Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4 (8-CPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 51 %

Apple A12X Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4 (8-CPU)

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

991 pts

8C / 8T · 4.46 GHz

2,125 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,539 pts

8C / 8T · 0.91 GHz

9,980 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,341

8C / 8T · 4.46 GHz

3,767

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12X

1,008

Apple M4 (8 Core)

3,408

AI performance (NPU)

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

5.0 TOPS

8C / 8T · 0.91 GHz

38.0 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

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 M4 (8-CPU)
Family	Apple A series (27)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)	Apple M4 (7)
Architecture	A12	M4
Technology	7 nm	3 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Notebook
Socket
Predecessor	Apple A10X Fusion	Apple M3
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A12X Bionic	Apple M4 (8-CPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x Vortex 2.49 GHz	4x Donan P-Core 0.91 - 4.46 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Tempest 1.59 GHz	4x Donan E-Core 0.90 - 2.85 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB	20.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A12X Bionic	Apple M4 (8-CPU)
GPU name	Apple A12X	Apple M4 (8 Core)
GPU frequency	1.13 GHz	0.34 - 1.58 GHz
CUs / Shader	28 / 448	128 / 1024
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays	1	3
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB	24 GB
Technology	7 nm	3 nm
Release date	Q3/2018	Q4/2024

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A12X Bionic	Apple M4 (8-CPU)
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS	16 Neural cores @ 38 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A12X Bionic	Apple M4 (8-CPU)
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)	LPDDR5X-7500 (120.0 GB/s)
Max. Memory	6 GB	24 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		4.0
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A12X Bionic	Apple M4 (8-CPU)
TDP	15 W	18 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down		5 W
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A12X Bionic	Apple M4 (8-CPU)
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	iOS	macOS, iPadOS
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	Armv9.2-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions		Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation, AVX2, SME
Release date	Q3/2018	Q4/2024
Release price
Documents

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 M4 (8-CPU) has received 4.9 stars (189 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A12X Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M4 (8-CPU)
8C / 8T · 0.91 - 4.46 GHz

★★★★★