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Apple A12Z Bionic vs Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-05-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 40 %

Apple A12Z Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 20 %

Apple A12Z Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU)

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

991 pts

14C / 14T · 4.51 GHz

2,165 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,539 pts

14C / 14T · 3.50 GHz

23,436 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,351

14C / 14T · 4.51 GHz

3,940

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,798

14C / 14T · 3.50 GHz

22,700

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12Z

1,152

Apple M4 Pro (20 Core)

8,013

AI performance (NPU)

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

5.0 TOPS

14C / 14T · 1.26 GHz

38.0 TOPS

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

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 9 Benchmark
90 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 A12Z Bionic	Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU)
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 Pro (12-CPU 18-GPU)
Successor		Apple M5 Pro (18-CPU 20-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	14 / 14
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x Vortex 2.49 GHz	10x Donan P-Core 1.26 - 4.51 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Tempest 1.59 GHz	4x Donan E-Core 1.02 - 2.59 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB	36.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU)
GPU name	Apple A12Z	Apple M4 Pro (20 Core)
GPU frequency	1.13 GHz	0.39 - 1.58 GHz
CUs / Shader	32 / 512	320 / 2560
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays	1	3
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB	32 GB
Technology	7 nm	3 nm
Release date	Q1/2020	Q4/2024

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU)
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 A12Z Bionic	Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU)
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)	LPDDR5X-8533 (273.0 GB/s)
Max. Memory	6 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	2	4
ECC	No	No
PCIe		5.0
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU)
TDP	15 W	50 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU)
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	Q1/2020	Q4/2024
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 A12Z Bionic is 4.2 stars (84 ratings), while Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU) has received 4.8 stars (455 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A12Z Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU)
14C / 14T · 1.26 - 4.51 GHz

★★★★★