iPhone X

iPhone XS Max 1 chip A12 Bionic (6c CPU / 4c GPU) iPhone XS 1 chip A12 Bionic (6c CPU / 4c GPU) iPhone XR 1 chip A12 Bionic (6c CPU / 4c GPU) iPhone X 1 chip A11 Bionic (6c CPU / 3c GPU)

Chip Comparison

Spec A12 Bionic
6c CPU / 4c GPU
A11 Bionic
6c CPU / 3c GPU
CPU
CPU Cores 6 6
Performance Cores 2 2
Performance CPU Name Vortex Monsoon
Performance Core Speed (GHz) 2.49 2.39
Efficiency Cores 4 4
Efficiency CPU Name Tempest Mistral
CPU ISA ARMv8.3-A ARMv8.2-A
GPU
GPU cores 4 3
Ray Tracing
GPU Vendor Apple Apple
NPU
Neural Engine cores 8 2
Neural Engine TOPS 5
Memory
Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
Memory options (GB) 3
4
2
3
Media Engine
Hardware Acceleration H264
HEVC
H264
HEVC
Semiconductor Tech
Process node (nm) 7 10
Transistors (billion) 6.9 4.3
Die size (mm²) 83.27 87.66
Part number APL1W81 APL1W72
Release date 2018-09-12 2017-09-12