What is the difference between Apple A10 Fusion and Apple A12 Bionic? Should you buy phone having Apple A10 Fusion or should go for Apple A12 Bionic? Well, you'll get all your questions cleared here.Compare two chipset models on the basis of their benchmark score (AnTuTu and Geekbench), pros and cons, technical specs categorised into gaming, CPU, GPU, Multimedia, and Connectivity.
Apple A10 Fusion has a AnTuTu benchmark score of 251384 and Apple A12 Bionic has AnTuTu score of 407476. Apple A10 Fusion comes up with 4 cores, 2340 MHz frequency and on the other hand, Apple A12 Bionic has 6 cores and 2490 MHz frequency.
Go through detailed comparison below to see the actual difference and similarity between both chipsets.
Specifications | A10 Fusion | A12 Bionic |
---|---|---|
Total score | 251384 | 407476 |
Frequency | 2340 MHz | 2490 MHz |
Max size | 3 GB | 12 GB |
Max display resolution | 2048 x 1536 | 2688 x 1242 |
AnTuTu Score | ||
CPU | 47633 | 129259 |
GPU | 78628 | 148052 |
Memory | 33145 | 56934 |
UX | 24576 | 63018 |
Total score | 251384 | 407476 |
Connectivity Features | ||
Modem | Qualcomm MDM9645M | |
4G support | LTE Cat. 12 | LTE Cat. 18 |
5G support | No | No |
Download speed | Up to 600 Mbps | Up to 1000 Mbps |
Upload speed | Up to 100 Mbps | Up to 150 Mbps |
Wi-Fi | 5 | 5 |
Bluetooth | 4.2 | 5.0 |
Performance | ||
Processor | 2x 2.34 GHz – Hurricane2x 0 GHz – Zephyr | 2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest |
Cores | 4 | 6 |
Frequency | 2340 MHz | 2490 MHz |
Instruction set | ARMv8-A | ARMv8.3-A |
L1 cache | 64 KB | 128 KB |
L2 cache | 3 MB | 8 MB |
L3 cache | 4 MB | |
Process | 16 nanometers | 7 nanometers |
Transistor count | 3.3 billion | 6.9 billion |
TDP | 5 W | 6 W |
Geekbench Score | ||
Image compression | 65.95 Mpixels/s | 131.35 Mpixels/s |
Face detection | 12.5 images/s | 17.45 images/s |
Speech recognition | 27.5 words/s | 70.4 words/s |
Machine learning | 29.55 images/s | 58.9 images/s |
Camera shooting | 15.3 images/s | 17.75 images/s |
HTML 5 | 1.83 Mnodes/s | 3.17 Mnodes/s |
SQLite | 426.85 Krows/s | 670.45 Krows/s |
Graphics | ||
GPU name | PowerVR GT7600 | Apple A12 Bionic GPU |
Architecture | Rogue | |
GPU frequency | 900 MHz | |
Execution units | 6 | 4 |
Shading units | 196 | |
FLOPS | 115 Gigaflops | 560 Gigaflops |
Vulkan version | 1.0 | 1.1 |
OpenCL version | 2.0 | 2.0 |
DirectX version | 12 | 12 |
Memory Info | ||
Memory type | LPDDR4 | LPDDR4X |
Max size | 3 GB | 12 GB |
Multimedia | ||
Neural processor (NPU) | No | Yes |
Storage type | NVMe | NVMe |
Max display resolution | 2048 x 1536 | 2688 x 1242 |
Max camera resolution | 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP | 2x 12MP |
Video capture | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VC-1, Motion JPEG | H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG |
Audio codecs | AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV | Protected AAC, AAC?LC, Apple Lossless, HE?AAC, Linear PCM, AAX ? AAX+, HE?AAC v2, MP3 |
Apple A10 Fusion has been announced on September 2016 whereas Apple A12 Bionic has been announced on September 2018. Check out detailed comparison with key specs below:
Benchmark measures the performance of the CPU. Geekbench is a benchmark that measures a processor's single core performance and AnTuTu score is the most popular and trustable benchmarking score which evaluates multi core performance. A10 Fusion has an AnTuTu benchmark score of 251384 points with CPU, GPU, Memory, UX score 47633, 78628, 33145, 24576 respectively.
CPU speed shows how many processing cycles per second can be executed by a CPU. A10 Fusion comes up with the architecture of Rogue and A12 Bionic comes up with architecture of undefined. Former one has 4 core and 2340 MHz frequency and latter has 6 cores and 2490 MHz frequency. A larger cache time leads to faster performance.
First chipset has max size of 3 GB and Apple A12 Bionic has max size of 3 GB. It shows the maximum amount of memory supported by a chipset.
In terms of multimedia, A10 Fusion has No NPU with storage type as NVMe and A12 Bionic has Yes NPU and NVMe storage type.