Apple A12Z Bionic
Benchmarks & Specs

The Apple A12Z Bionic is a fast smart device processor that the manufacturer Apple uses in some tablets (Apple iPad Pro). It is based on the normal Apple A12 smartphone processor, but has twice as many performance cores.

In total, the Apple A12Z Bionic has four performance CPU cores (Apple Vortex) that can clock at up to 2.49 GHz. These are supplemented by another four efficiency cores (Apple Tempest), which have a maximum speed of 1.59 GHz. The E cores are smaller, have a lower clock speed and require less energy.

The Apple A12Z Bionic already has hardware AI acceleration that significantly speeds up image and video processing. To do this, the manufacturer installs eight neural cores in the Apple A12Z Bionic, which achieve a theoretical AI computing power of 5 TOPS.

The integrated graphics of the Apple A12Z Bionic can clock at a maximum of 1.13 GHz and have 512 texture shaders. The graphics processing power of almost 1.2 TFLOPS (FP32) is really impressive for a mobile smart device processor and is fast enough for all mobile games.

The high graphics performance is also related to the fast LPDDR4X-4266 memory, which is connected to the SoC in two channels. The 6 GB of RAM achieves a maximum of 68.2 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

The TDP of the SoC is between 12 and 15 watts. Apple itself does not provide an exact TDP value for the Apple A12Z Bionic, so we used the energy consumption in benchmarks to estimate the TDP. The CPU and GPU part of the Apple A12Z Bionic share the maximum possible energy among themselves as required.

The Apple A12Z Bionic is manufactured at TSMC using a 7 nm manufacturing process. Apple usually uses the Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturers latest production line to create the most efficient processors possible.

• Integrated Apple A12Z graphics unit
• High energy efficiency through 7-nm manufacturing
• Solid performance for everyday and complex tasks
• Long service life through robust design