Apple A12 Bionic Benchmark, Test and specs
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The Apple A12 Bionic has 6 cores with 6 threads and is based on the 12. gen of the Apple A series series. The processor was released in Q3/2018. The Apple A12 Bionic scores 1,116 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 2,731 points.
CPU lineageThe segment in which we have classified the Apple A12 Bionic. Here you can see if it is a desktop processor or a mobile processor or which processor may be the successor of the Apple A12 Bionic. |
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| Name: | Apple A12 Bionic |
| Family: | Apple A series |
| CPU group: | Apple A12/A12X/A12Z |
| Segment: | Mobile |
| Generation: | 12 |
| Predecessor: | Apple A11 Bionic |
| Successor: | Apple A13 Bionic |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
The Apple A12 Bionic has 6 CPU cores and can calculate 6 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Apple A12 Bionic is 2.49 GHz. The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.
| CPU Cores / Threads: | 6 / 6 |
| Core architecture: | hybrid (big.LITTLE) |
| A-Core: | 2x Vortex |
| B-Core: | 4x Tempest |
| Hyperthreading / SMT: | No |
| Overclocking: | No |
| A-Core Frequency: | 2.49 GHz |
| B-Core Frequency: | 1.59 GHz |
Internal Graphics
The Apple A12 Bionic has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Apple A12 Bionic uses the Apple A12, which has 256 texture shaders and 32 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.
| GPU name: | Apple A12 |
| GPU frequency: | 1.13 GHz |
| GPU (Turbo): | No turbo |
| Execution units: | 32 |
| Shader: | 256 |
| Max. GPU Memory: | 4 GB |
| Max. displays: | 1 |
| Generation: | 9 |
| Direct X: | -- |
| Technology: | 7 nm |
| Release date: | Q3/2018 |
Hardware codec support
A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.
| h265 / HEVC (8 bit): | Decode / Encode |
| h265 / HEVC (10 bit): | Decode / Encode |
| h264: | Decode / Encode |
| VP8: | Decode / Encode |
| VP9: | Decode / Encode |
| AV1: | No |
| AVC: | Decode |
| VC-1: | Decode |
| JPEG: | Decode / Encode |
Memory & PCIeThe processor can use up to 4 GB memory in 1 (Single Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 34.1 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system. |
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| Memory type: | LPDDR4X-4266 |
| Max. Memory: | 4 GB |
| Memory channels: | 1 (Single Channel) |
| Bandwidth: | 34.1 GB/s |
| ECC: | No |
| PCIe: | -- |
| AES-NI: | No |
Thermal ManagementThe thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 6 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU. |
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| TDP (PL1 / PBP): | 6 W |
| TDP (PL2): | -- |
| TDP up: | -- |
| TDP down: | -- |
| Tjunction max.: | -- |
Technical details
The Apple A12 Bionic is made in 7 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 8.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.
| Technology: | 7 nm |
| Chip design: | Chiplet |
| Socket: | -- |
| L2-Cache: | 8.00 MB |
| L3-Cache: | -- |
| Architecture: | A12 |
| Operating systems: | iOS |
| Virtualization: | None |
| Instruction set (ISA): | ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) |
| ISA extensions: | |
| Release date: | Q3/2018 |
| Release price: | -- |
| Part Number: | -- |
| Documents: | -- |
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Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the Apple A12 Bionic have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.
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Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
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Intel Core i7-6700
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-10210U
4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz |
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Apple A12 Bionic
6C 6T @ 2.49 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-8265U
4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-7660U
2C 4T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-4670K
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz |
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Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.|
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Intel Core i5-7267U
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz |
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AMD FX-8350
8C 8T @ 4.10 GHz |
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Apple A10X Fusion
6C 6T @ 2.36 GHz |
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Apple A12 Bionic
6C 6T @ 2.49 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-3635QM
4C 8T @ 2.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-10110U
2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz |
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MediaTek Dimensity 800
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz |
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Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.|
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Intel Core i3-10300
4C 8T @ 4.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-10510U
4C 8T @ 4.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-1034G1
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz |
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Apple A12 Bionic
6C 6T @ 2.49 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-1038NG7
4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz |
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Intel Xeon W-2170B
14C 28T @ 4.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-7800X
6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz |
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Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
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AMD Ryzen 3 2200G
4C 4T @ 3.65 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 3450U
4C 8T @ 3.10 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-4700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Apple A12 Bionic
6C 6T @ 2.49 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-7500T
4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-6400
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-8100T
4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz |
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iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G
Qualcomm Adreno 620 @ 0.75 GHz |
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AMD A8-7670K
AMD Radeon R7 - 384 (Kaveri) @ 0.76 GHz |
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AMD A10-9620P
AMD Radeon R5 - 384 (Bristol Ridge) @ 0.76 GHz |
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Apple A12 Bionic
Apple A12 @ 1.13 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-13100TE
Intel UHD Graphics 730 @ 1.50 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-13100E
Intel UHD Graphics 730 @ 1.50 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-13100T
Intel UHD Graphics 730 @ 1.50 GHz |
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AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
The AnTuTu 8 Benchmark measures the performance of a SoC. AnTuTu benchmarks the CPU, GPU, Memory as well as the UX (User Experience) by simulating browser and app usage. AnTuTu can benchmark any ARM CPU that runs under Android or iOS. Devices may not be directly compareable if the benchmark has been performed under different operating systems.In the AnTuTu 8 benchmark, the single-core performance of a processor is only slightly weighted. The evaluation consists of the multi-core performance of the processor, the speed of the RAM and the performance of the internal graphics.
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MediaTek Dimensity 1000L
8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz |
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 855
8C 8T @ 2.84 GHz |
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MediaTek Dimensity 1000C
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz |
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Apple A12 Bionic
6C 6T @ 2.49 GHz |
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MediaTek Dimensity 820
8C 8T @ 2.60 GHz |
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HiSilicon Kirin 985 5G
8C 8T @ 2.58 GHz |
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MediaTek Kompanio 820
8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz |
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Benchmarks
Geekbench 6 (SC)
528 entries
528 entries
Geekbench 6 (MC)
527 entries
527 entries
Geekbench 5 (SC)
1,664 entries
1,664 entries
Geekbench 5 (MC)
1,651 entries
1,651 entries
FP32 SP iGPU
1,872 entries
1,872 entries
AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
110 entries
110 entries
The Apple A12 Bionic processor commissioned by Apple is manufactured by the Taiwanese company TSMC using the 7-nanometer FinFET process. It was first installed in the iPhone XR and iPhone XS, which were launched in the third quarter of 2018. In 2019 it was also installed in the new third-generation iPad Air and in the fifth-generation iPad Mini. The Apple A14 Bionic came onto the market in 2020, but the 8th generation standard iPad was then given the Apple A12 Bionic again.
The Apple A12 Bionic consists of 2 high-performance cores (Vortex) and 4 efficiency cores (Tempest). The Vortex cores clock at up to 2.49 gigahertz and the Tempest cores at up to 1.59 gigahertz. Due to the hybrid processor design, the Apple A12 Bionic is very efficient, since the built-in high-performance cores are only used for really computing-intensive tasks. The six cores of the Apple A12 Bionic cannot be overclocked, nor does the processor have hyperthreading.
The Apple A12 Bionics own graphics are made up of 32 execution units and 256 shaders. Like the processor, it is manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers, has a fixed clock rate of 1.13 gigahertz and thus achieves an FP32 computing power (single precision) of 576 gigaFLOPS.
LPDDR4X-4266 type RAM is installed in the Apple A12 Bionic. In the Apple A12 Bionic, this main memory achieves a maximum bandwidth of 34.1 gigabits per second. the maximum size of the RAM with which the Apple A12 Bionic is equipped is 4 gigabytes and is used in the iPhone XS.
In the Geekbench 5 benchmark, the Apple A12 Bionic achieves a single-core value of 1116 points and a multi-core value of 2731 points.
On our partner site www.check-mac.com you will find an overview of all Apple devices with the Apple A12 Bionic: www.check-mac.com/de/cpu-apple_a12_bionic
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