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Apple
Apple A12X Bionic
The chip in the 2018 iPad Pro 11-inch and 12.9-inch, built on 7 nm with four performance and four efficiency cores, a seven-core Apple GPU and an eight-core Neural Engine rated at up to 5 trillion operations per second. Apple says the iPad Pro's USB-C port drives external displays up to 5K.
Pros
- Eight CPU cores: four performance and four efficiency
- Seven-core GPU, rated by Apple at up to twice the previous iPad Pro's graphics performance
- USB-C output to external displays up to 5K, per Apple's launch release
Cons
- Most configurations pair it with 4 GB of RAM; only the 1 TB models have 6 GB
- Wi-Fi 5 only; Wi-Fi 6 arrived with the 2020 iPad Pro
- A 2018-era 7 nm design, since followed by the A12Z (2020) and the M1 (2021)
Awaiting benchmarks
No Inno Score yet: CPU still needs a published benchmark result.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the Apple A12X Bionic
General
- Announced
- 2018
- Process
- 7 nm
- Architecture
- Armv8.3
CPU
- Cores
- 8
- Core configuration
- 4x2.49 GHz Vortex + 4x1.6 GHz Tempest
- Max clock
- 2.49 GHz
GPU
- GPU
- Apple GPU (7-core)
AI
- NPU
- Neural Engine (8-core)
- AI performance
- 5 TOPS
Memory
- Memory type
- LPDDR4X
Connectivity
- Wi-Fi
- Wi-Fi 5
- Bluetooth
- 5.0
Media
- Max display
- 2732x2048
- Video capture
- 4K@60fps
Benchmarks
- 3DMark Wild Life Extreme
- 3,209Top 19%
Devices with the Apple A12X Bionic
2 devices in our catalog use this chip
Quick answers
Is the Apple A12X Bionic good in 2026?
We haven't scored the Apple A12X Bionic yet: there are no published CPU benchmark results for it in our database, and we don't score chips on their spec sheet alone. The chip in the 2018 iPad Pro 11-inch and 12.9-inch, built on 7 nm with four performance and four efficiency cores, a seven-core Apple GPU and an eight-core Neural Engine rated at up to 5 trillion operations per second. Apple says the iPad Pro's USB-C port drives external displays up to 5K.
Which devices use the Apple A12X Bionic?
2 devices in our catalog use the Apple A12X Bionic: iPad Pro 12.9-inch (A12X), iPad Pro 11-inch (A12X).
What are the key specs of the Apple A12X Bionic?
Cores: 8 · Process: 7 nm · GPU: Apple GPU (7-core)
What are the closest alternatives to the Apple A12X Bionic?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are MediaTek Helio P35, Qualcomm Snapdragon 835, Huawei Kirin 710 — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
