Apple 5-Core A18 vs Apple 4-Core A12 Full Specs

Summary

640 Shaders 1.34GHz	256 Shaders 1.1GHz
Shared Memory60GB/sLPDDR5X	Shared Memory34.1GB/sLPDDR4X
Peak·FP32·FP16 1.71 TFLOPS	Peak·FP32·FP16 562.2 GFLOPS
Form Factor iGPU	Form Factor iGPU
TDP Shared	TDP Shared

Theoretical Performance

Clock Speed1338MHz UC·Boost·OC	Clock Speed1098MHz UC·Boost·OC
Peak OPS 1.71 TFLOPSFP16	Peak OPS 562.2 GFLOPSFP16
FP32 1.71 TFLOPS	FP32 562.2 GFLOPS
Pixel Rate 26.8 GPixel/s	Pixel Rate 8.8 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 53.5 GTexel/s	Texture Rate 17.6 GTexel/s

Core Config

Shaders 640 Shaders	Shaders 256 Shaders
TMUs 40 TMUs	TMUs 16 TMUs
ROPs 20 ROPs	ROPs 8 ROPs
RT Cores 5 RT-Cores	RT Cores -
EUs 80 EUs	EUs 32 EUs

Clocks

Boost Clock 1.34GHz

Boost Clock 1.1GHz

Cache

L2 Cache 768KB shared

L2 Cache 128KB shared

Memory

Shared MemoryLPDDR5X	Shared MemoryLPDDR4X
Memory Bus 64-bit	Memory Bus 64-bit
Memory Speed 7.5GT/s	Memory Speed 4.3GT/s
Memory Bandwidth 60GB/s	Memory Bandwidth 34.1GB/s
ECC No	ECC No

Video Output

Multi-Monitor 1

Multi-Monitor 1

Encoder

Encoder Model Apple Media Engine 3	-
Codec AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) ProRes	Codec -

Decoder

Decoder Model Apple Media Engine 3	-
Codec AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) AV1 ProRes	Codec -

Card

Form Factor iGPU

Form Factor iGPU

Chip

Manufacturer Apple	Manufacturer Apple
Chip Designer Apple	Chip Designer Apple
Architecture Apple Gen 7	Architecture Apple Gen 2
Family A Series	Family A Series
Branding	Branding
Codename G17A	Codename G11P
Market Segment Smartphone	Market Segment Smartphone
Release Date Sep 9, 2024	Release Date Sep 12, 2018

Fabrication

Foundry TSMC	Foundry TSMC
Fabrication Node N3E	Fabrication Node N7
Die Size 90mm²	Die Size 83mm²
Transistor Count 15.5 Billion	Transistor Count 6.9 Billion
Transistor Density 172 MTr/mm²	Transistor Density 83 MTr/mm²

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