A12x Bionic Chip
A12x Bionic Chip
Up to 15% faster
• than A11 Bionic
• 4 efficiency cores
Up to 50% lower power
• usage than A11 Bionic
Apple-designed GPU. A new fourth core and lossless memory
compression bring big gains in graphics performance to games,
video editing and visually demanding apps.
4-core
• GPU
• Graphics performance
Up to 50% faster
• than A11 Bionic
Metal 2
• optimised
Apple-designed Neural Engine. Our Neural Engine is built for
advanced, real-time machine learning. That means iPhone XR can
recognise patterns, make predictions and learn from experience,
similar to the way you do.
The Neural Engine is incredibly fast, able to perform 5 trillion
operations per second. It’s incredibly efficient, which enables it to
do all kinds of new things in real time. And it’s incredibly smart, so
you can do things like jump straight into immersive AR experiences.
And quickly find all your pictures of dogs. Or beaches. Or babies.
We’ve also opened the Neural Engine up to the Core ML platform,
so developers can bring powerful, real-time machine learning to
their apps — learning that happens on your iPhone.
8-core
architecture
5 trillion
operations per second
Core ML runs
Up to 9x faster
than A11 Bionic
Enhanced ISP. The image signal processor features a refined
depth engine, which captures extraordinary detail in Portrait mode.
And with Smart HDR, you’ll notice far greater dynamic range in
your photos.
A12 Bionic in action. The processing power and intelligence of
the A12 Bionic make iPhone XR incredibly capable. But the
chip was also designed with efficiency in mind. So when you
put all that power into play, you still get great battery life.
SPECIFICATIONS THAT MATTER
Property Apple A12 Bionic Snap
Design Process 7nm 7nm
Architecture 64-bit 64-bi
CPU 6-core processor (2x Performance cores + 4x 8xK
Efficiency cores) to 2.8
GPU Apple-designed 4-core GPU Adre
Camera Apple's ISP Dual
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Charging Wireless charging, Normal Charging via USB Qual
PERFORMANCE
IMPROVEMENTS
The A12 Bionic and the Snapdragon 855 processors are based on
the 64-bit microarchitecture and manufactured through the 7nm
fabrication process. A smaller process node boosts the overall
performance and the power efficiency of the chipset. Well, that's the
only similarity between both the processors.
The A12 Bionic adopts a six-core CPU configuration — two
Performance cores and four Efficiency cores.
The A12 Bionic only brings a relative bump in performance and not
too significant one when compared to the A11 Bionic. So you'll
notice that the app launches are a bit faster owing to the smart
compute system. Also, A12 Bionic is more power efficient and
consumes less power.
Unlike the 6-core CPU implementation of the A12, the Snapdragon
855 has 8-core configuration. Qualcomm has opted for a tri-cluster
arrangement, instead of the regular two cluster arrangement.
The Snapdragon 855 sports eight Kryo 845 cores clustered across
a single 'Prime' Cortex A76 core clocked at 2.84GHz, three
'Performance' Cortex-A76 cores clocked at 2.42GHz and lastly four
'Efficiency' Cortex-A55 cores clocked at 1.80GHz. These clusters
are designed for high performance, high efficiency, improved task-
sharing capacities and low latency rates.