Samsung Exynos 4210 vs Apple A12 Bionic. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  Samsung Exynos 4210 Apple A12/A12X/A12Z
• Family
  Samsung Exynos Apple A series
• Generation
  1 12
• Predecessor
  - Apple A11 Bionic
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Successor
  - Apple A13 Bionic

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• A-Core
  - 2x Vortex
• B-Core
  - 4x Tempest
• Base Frequency
  1 GHz 1.59 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• CPU Cores
  2 6
• CPU Threads
  2 6
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  1 GHz 2.49 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  1 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
  - 2.49 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• DirectX Version
  0 -
• Execution units
  4 4
• Generation
  Utgard 9
• GPU Frequency
  270 MHz 1590 MHz
• GPU name
  ARM Mali-400 MP4 Apple A12
• GPU Turbo
  270 MHz 2490 MHz
• Max. displays
  1 1
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 4 GB
• Release date
  Q2/2008 Q3/2018
• Shader
  64 0
• Technology
  28nm 7 nm

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No Conflicting source values: Decode | Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple A12 Bionic and Samsung Exynos 4210. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Max. Memory
  - 16 GB
• Memory channels
  0 1
• Memory type
  LPDDR2-400 LPDDR4X-4266

• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Samsung Exynos 4210 and Apple A12 Bionic Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  - 6 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Samsung Exynos 4210 and Apple A12 Bionic, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Cortex-A9 A12
• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv7-A32 (32 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• L2-Cache
  1 MB 8 MB
• Release date
  Q2/2011 Q3/2018
• Technology
  45 nm 7 nm
• Virtualization
  None None