The 'A12 Bionic' chip on the iPhone XS generation turned out to have enough power to drive the MacBook



A detailed investigation of the performance of the A12 Bionic chip installed in the iPhone XS / XS Max and iPhone XR released in 2018 revealed that it is actually hiding the performance enough to drive a MacBook by itself It is.

The iPhone XS processor is so powerful that it could pave the way for ARM MacBook - BGR
https://bgr.com/2018/10/10/iphone-xs-speed-vs-android-a12-bionic-chip-could-power-macbooks/

The iPhone XS & XS Max Review: Unveiling the Silicon Secrets
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13392/the-iphone-xs-xs-max-review-unveiling-the-silicon-secrets

The following tweets caught interest of Mr. Chris Smith of BGR dealing news such as mobile related equipment.


It was a table to show that "the iPhone XS Max 512 GB model is never too expensive" compared the performance of the A12 Bionic chip with iPhone XS Max and the Intel Core i5 on the MacBook Pro 13 inch model , IPhone XS Max gives results that are comparable to MacBook Pro in terms of benchmark scores, he says, "In fact, the A12 Bionic chip has considerable performance".



In such a circumstance, it is becoming clear that the performance of the A12 Bionic chip goes beyond smartphones into the area of ​​the notebook PC by comparison of more detailed specifications posted on Reddit.

Here it is a breakdown [OC]:: apple
https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/9midcx/apple_really_undersold_the_a12_cpu_its_almost /



The following table posted by Reddit user "WinterCharm" compares the A12 Bionic chip with the three models of "PC Intel Xeon 8176", "Intel Core i7-6700k", and "AMD EPYC 7601". When collecting and comparing the data of Spec 2006 database, it has become clear that it has performance not so dissociated from CPU and server for server. WinterCharm concluded the comparison: "The biggest conclusion we found here is that Apple's A12 Bionic chip is comparable or superior to the data of Spec2006, which is low-clock, low-power consumption yet compared to the chip being compared That's it. "



WinterCharm also features that the number of instructions per cycle is large and that the cache capacity is large compared to other chips, the A12 Bionic chip has performance comparable to that of x86 series server / desktop CPU The conclusion is stated. Also, there is no other mobile processor with equivalent performance

This situation is also seen to be related to the rumor that "Apple is developing a MacBook that runs on ARM processors", indicating the possibility of a change in the supply situation of processors dependent on Intel It is.

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