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Apple A12Z Bionic vs Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711)

Last updated: 2026-06-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A12Z Bionic

Rank 2 - 18 %

Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711)

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A12Z Bionic

Rank 2 - 13 %

Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711)

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

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,124

4C / 4T · 1.50 GHz

202

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

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,718

4C / 4T · 1.50 GHz

601

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12Z

1,152

Broadcom VideoCore VI

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 9 Benchmark
90 entries

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711)
Family	Apple A series (27)	Broadcom BCM (3)
CPU group	Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)	Broadcom BCM2711 (1)
Architecture	A12	Cortex-A72
Technology	7 nm	28 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Desktop
Socket
Predecessor	Apple A10X Fusion	Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (Broadcom BCM2837B0)
Successor		Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711)
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	4x Vortex 2.49 GHz	4x Cortex-A72 1.50 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Tempest 1.59 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB	1.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✓

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711)
GPU name	Apple A12Z	Broadcom VideoCore VI
GPU frequency	1.13 GHz	0.50 GHz
CUs / Shader	32 / 512	4 / 64
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	1	2
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB	2 GB
Technology	7 nm	28 nm
Release date	Q1/2020	Q2/2019

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711)
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711)
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)	LPDDR4-3200 (12.8 GB/s)
Max. Memory	6 GB	8 GB
Memory channels	2	1
ECC	No	No
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711)
TDP	15 W	7.5 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down		3 W
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711)
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✗
Operating systems	iOS	Windows 11 (ARM), Linux
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Release date	Q1/2020	06/2019
Release price		35 $
Documents		Technical data sheet

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 (85 ratings), while Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711) has received 3.9 stars (60 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A12Z Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★

Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711)
4C / 4T · 1.50 GHz

★★★★★