Apple A12X

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Apple A12X Bionic
File:Apple A12X.jpg
Produced From October 30, 2018 to March 18, 2020
Designed by Apple Inc.
Common manufacturer(s)
Max. CPU clock rate to 2.49[2] GHz
Min. feature size 7 nm[3]
Instruction set A64 – ARMv8.3-A
Microarchitecture Vortex and Tempest
Product code APL1083[4]
Cores 8 (ARM big.LITTLE: 4 "big" Vortex + 4 "little" Tempest)[1]
L1 cache 128 KB instruction, 128 KB data
L2 cache 8 MB
Predecessor Apple A10X
Successor Apple A12Z
GPU Apple-designed 7-core[3]
Application Mobile
Variant Apple A12, Apple A12Z

The Apple A12X Bionic is a 64-bit system on a chip (SoC) designed by Apple Inc. It first appeared in the iPad Pro (3rd generation), announced on October 30, 2018.[3] The A12X is an 8-core variant of the A12 (four big cores, four small cores) and Apple states that it has 35 percent faster single-core CPU performance and 90 percent faster overall CPU performance than its predecessor, the Apple A10X.[3] The A12X's design is also used in the Apple A12Z.[5]

Design

The A12X features an Apple-designed 64-bit ARMv8.3-A octa-core CPU, with four high-performance cores called Vortex and four energy-efficient cores called Tempest.[3][1] The Vortex cores are a 7-wide decode out-of-order superscalar design, while the Tempest cores are a 3-wide decode out-of-order superscalar design. The Tempest cores are based on Apple's Swift cores from the Apple A6, and are similar in performance to ARM Cortex-A73 CPU cores.[6][7] It is Apple's first SoC with an octa core CPU.[1]

The A12X integrates an Apple-designed hepta core graphics processing unit (GPU) with twice the graphics performance of the A10X.[3] Embedded in the A12X is the M12 motion coprocessor.[8] The A12X includes dedicated neural network hardware that Apple calls a "Next-generation Neural Engine".[3] This neural network hardware, which is the same as found in the A12,[1] can perform up to 5 trillion operations per second.[3]

The A12X is manufactured by TSMC using a 7 nm FinFET process, and it contains 10 billion transistors[1][3] vs. the 6.9 billion on the A12.[9] The A12X is paired with 4 GB of LPDDR4X memory in the third-generation 12.9" iPad Pro and the 11" iPad Pro or 6 GB in the 1TB storage configurations.[10][4]

Products that include the Apple A12X

See also

References

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