Apple M5 (iPad) vs Apple A12 Bionic
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
4x 4.6 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz –
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Frequency
4600 MHz
2490 MHz
Cores
10
6
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8.3-A
L1 cache
320 KB
128 KB
L2 cache
16 MB
0
Process
3 nm
7 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
Transistor count
-
6.9
TDP
-
6 W
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
4800 MHz
2133 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
153 Gb/s
34.1 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
Apple Neural Engine
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
NVMe
NVMe
Max display resolution
2752 x 2064
2688 x 1242
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
AAC, AAC‑LC, Apple Lossless, HE‑AAC, Linear PCM, AAX и AAX+, HE‑AAC v2, MP3
Neural processor (NPU)
-
Neural Engine
Max camera resolution
-
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 18
5G support
Yes
No
Wi-Fi
7
5
Bluetooth
6.0
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Download speed
-
Up to 1000 Mbps
Upload speed
-
Up to 350 Mbps
Info
Announced
Oct 2025
Sep 2018
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
-
APL1W81
Graphics
GPU name
-
Apple A12 GPU
GPU frequency
-
1125 MHz
Execution units
-
4
Shading units
-
64
Vulkan version
-
1.1
OpenCL version
-
2.0
DirectX version
-
12
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
3,155,649
643,548
Geekbench 6
4,175
1,301
Geekbench 6
15,577
2,843
FP32 (float)
-
576