Apple M4 iPad vs Apple A12 Bionic
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
4x 4.4 GHz –5x 2.85 GHz –
2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest
Frequency
4400 MHz
2490 MHz
Cores
9
6
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8.3-A
L1 cache
192 KB
128 KB
L2 cache
16 MB
0
Process
3 nm
7 nm
Transistor count
28
6.9
TDP
20 W
6 W
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
Graphics
GPU name
Apple M4 GPU
Apple A12 GPU
GPU frequency
1598 MHz
1125 MHz
Execution units
10
4
Shading units
128
64
Vulkan version
—
1.1
OpenCL version
—
2.0
DirectX version
—
12
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
7500 MHz
2133 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
120 Gbit/s
34.1 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
Apple Neural Engine
—
Theoretical Performance
38 TOPS
—
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
NVMe
NVMe
Max display resolution
2064 x 2752
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
Download speed
Up to 10000 Mbps
Up to 1000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 7500 Mbps
Up to 350 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
5
Bluetooth
5.3
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Announced
May 2024
Sep 2018
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
—
APL1W81
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
2,713,488
643,548
Geekbench 6
3,767
1,301
Geekbench 6
14,677
2,843
FP32 (float)
4,090
576
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.