Apple 7-Core A12X vs Qualcomm Adreno 685 Full Specs

Summary

448 Shaders 1.1GHz	1,536 Shaders 590MHz
Shared Memory68.3GB/sLPDDR4X	Shared Memory68.3GB/sLPDDR4X
Peak·FP32·FP16 983.8 GFLOPS	Peak·FP32·FP16 1.81 TFLOPS
Form Factor iGPU	Form Factor iGPU
TDP Shared	TDP 5W

Theoretical Performance

Clock Speed1098MHz UC·Boost·OC	Clock Speed590MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC
Peak OPS 983.8 GFLOPSFP16	Peak OPS 3.63 TFLOPSFP16
FP32 983.8 GFLOPS	FP32 1.81 TFLOPS
-	FP64 453.1 GFLOPS
Pixel Rate 15.4 GPixel/s	Pixel Rate 28.3 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 30.7 GTexel/s	Texture Rate 56.6 GTexel/s

Core Config

Shaders 448 Shaders	Shaders 1,536 Shaders
TMUs 28 TMUs	TMUs 96 TMUs
ROPs 14 ROPs	ROPs 48 ROPs
EUs 56 EUs	EUs 12 EUs

Clocks

Base Clock -	Base Clock 250MHz
Boost Clock 1.1GHz	Boost Clock 590MHz

Cache

L2 Cache 256KB shared	L2 Cache 512KB shared
L3 Cache -	L3 Cache 3MB shared

Memory

Shared MemoryLPDDR4X	Shared MemoryLPDDR4X
Memory Bus 128-bit	Memory Bus 128-bit
Memory Speed 4.3GT/s	Memory Speed 4.3GT/s
Memory Bandwidth 68.3GB/s	Memory Bandwidth 68.3GB/s
ECC No	ECC No

Power & Thermals

TDP Shared

TDP 5W

Video Output

Multi-Monitor 1

Multi-Monitor 1

Encoder

-	Encoder Model Hexagon 690
Codec -	Codec H.263 MPEG-4 VC-1 VP8 VP9 AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265)

Decoder

-	Decoder Model Hexagon 690
Codec -	Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 VC-1 VP8 VP9 AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265)

Card

Form Factor iGPU

Form Factor iGPU

Chip

Manufacturer Apple	Manufacturer Qualcomm
Chip Designer Apple	Chip Designer Qualcomm
Architecture Apple Gen 2	Architecture Adreno 600
Family A Series	Family Adreno 600
Branding	Branding
Codename G11G	Codename -
Market Segment Tablet	Market Segment Smartphone
Release Date Oct 30, 2018	Release Date Oct 2, 2019

Fabrication

Foundry TSMC	Foundry TSMC
Fabrication Node N7	Fabrication Node N7
Die Size 135mm²	Die Size -
Transistor Count 10 Billion	Transistor Count -
Transistor Density 74 MTr/mm²	Transistor Density -

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