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Apple A12Z Bionic vs Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-06-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 61 %

Apple A12Z Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 91 %

Apple A12Z Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,351

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

2,370

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,798

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

5,726

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

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,124

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

1,745

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

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,718

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

4,777

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12Z

1,152

Apple A15 (4 GPU Cores)

1,370

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

779,044 pts

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

806,250 pts

AI performance (NPU)

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

5.0 TOPS

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

15.8 TOPS

More benchmarks

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 10 Benchmark
25 entries

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 entries

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
Family	Apple A series (27)	Apple A series (27)
CPU group	Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)	Apple A15 (2)
Architecture	A12	A15
Technology	7 nm	5 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket
Predecessor	Apple A10X Fusion
Successor		Apple A16 Bionic (5-CPU 4-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	6 / 6
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x Vortex 2.49 GHz	2x Avalanche 3.23 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Tempest 1.59 GHz	4x Blizzard 2.02 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB	16.00 MB
L3-Cache		32.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
GPU name	Apple A12Z	Apple A15 (4 GPU Cores)
GPU frequency	1.13 GHz	1.34 GHz
CUs / Shader	32 / 512	16 / 512
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	1	3
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB	6 GB
Technology	7 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q1/2020	Q3/2021

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Apple A15 Bionic (4-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 A12Z Bionic	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory	6 GB	6 GB
Memory channels	2	1
ECC	No	No
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
TDP	15 W	10 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
Chip design	Chiplet	Chiplet
AES-NI	✗	✗
Operating systems	iOS	iOS
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release date	Q1/2020	Q3/2021
Release price
Documents

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple A12Z Bionic is 4.2 stars (84 ratings), while Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) has received 4.4 stars (98 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A12Z Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★

Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

★★★★★