Comparing Apple A12X Bionic vs Apple A12X Bionic

description_compare Apple A12X Bionic and HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

• Name
  Apple A12X Bionic HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  Apple A series HiSilicon Kirin
• Generation
  12 8
• CPU group
  Apple A12/A12X/A12Z HiSilicon Kirin 990
• Predecessor
  Apple A10X Fusion --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

• Frequency
  1.59 GHz 1.95 GHz
• CPU Cores
  8 8
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.49 GHz 2.36 GHz
• CPU Threads
  8 8
• Turbo (8 Cores)
  2.49 GHz 2.86 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)
• A core
  4x Vortex 2x Cortex-A76
• B core
  4x Tempest 2x Cortex-A76
• C core
  -- 4x Cortex-A55

• GPU name
  Apple A12X ARM Mali-G76 MP16
• GPU frequency
  1.59 GHz 0.60 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  2.49 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  7 16
• Shader
  0 256
• Max. GPU Memory
  6 GB 4 GB
• Max. displays
  2 2
• Generation
  9 Bifrost 3
• DirectX Version
  12
• Technology
  7 nm 7 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2018 Q3/2018

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

• Memory type
  LPDDR4X-4266 LPDDR4X-4266
• Max. Memory
  16 GB 8 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 4

• AES-NI
  No No

• TDP (PL1)
  15 W 6 W

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None None
• L2-Cache
  8.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  -- 2.00 MB
• Architecture
  A12 Cortex-A76 / Cortex-A55
• Technology
  7 nm 7 nm
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q3/2018 Q3/2019

• Used in
  Apple iPad Pro 2018 Unknown