Apple A12 Bionic vs Apple M2 iPad
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
4x 3.49 GHz – Avalanche4x 2.42 GHz – Blizzard
Frequency
2490 MHz
3490 MHz
Cores
6
8
Instruction set
ARMv8.3-A
ARMv8.5-A
L1 cache
128 KB
192 KB
L2 cache
0
0
Process
7 nm
5 nm
Transistor count
6.9
20
TDP
6 W
15 W
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
Graphics
GPU name
Apple A12 GPU
Apple M2 GPU
GPU frequency
1125 MHz
1398 MHz
Execution units
4
8
Shading units
64
128
Vulkan version
1.1
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
12
-
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR4X
LPDDR5
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
6400 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
102.4 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Neural Engine
Yes
Storage type
NVMe
NVMe
Max display resolution
2688 x 1242
2732 x 2048
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
-
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
H.264, H.265, VP9
Audio codecs
AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 1000 Mbps
Up to 7500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 350 Mbps
Up to 3000 Mbps
Wi-Fi
5
6
Bluetooth
5.0
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS
Info
Announced
Sep 2018
Jun 2022
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
APL1W81
APL1109
AI
NPU
-
Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
-
15.8 TOPS
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
643,548
2,188,966
Geekbench 6
1,301
2,623
Geekbench 6
2,843
9,803
FP32 (float)
576
2,918