Apple A15 Bionic vs Apple A12Z Bionic

Comparative analysis of Apple A15 Bionic and Apple A12Z Bionic videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL.

Apple A15 Bionic

Apple A12Z Bionic

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple A15 Bionic

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 19% higher core clock speed: 1338 MHz vs 1125 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 7 nm

Launch date	14 Sep 2021 vs 25 Mar 2020
Core clock speed	1338 MHz vs 1125 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 7 nm

Reasons to consider the Apple A12Z Bionic

2x more pipelines: 8 vs 4

Pipelines	8 vs 4

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple A15 Bionic
GPU 2: Apple A12Z Bionic

Name	Apple A15 Bionic	Apple A12Z Bionic
Geekbench - OpenCL		11391

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple A15 Bionic	Apple A12Z Bionic
Essentials
Launch date	14 Sep 2021	25 Mar 2020
Place in performance rating	not rated	1451
Technical info
Core clock speed	1338 MHz	1125 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	7 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1.713 TFLOPS	1.152 TFLOPS
Pipelines	4	8
Render output units	20	32
Memory
Memory bandwidth	34.1 GB/s	68.2 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	128 bit
Memory type	LPDDR4X-4266	LPDDR4X-4266