Tests conducted on Apple's A14X and A12Z Bionic chips showed the tremendous potential of the powerful silicon with benchmark scores reaching an all-time high.
The A14X Bionic chip is Apple's powerful 5nM silicon that is likely to power the iPad Pro, which is also rumored to have a mini-LED screen. In the past, the A12X Bionic chip which powers the iPad Pro before has a benchmark performance comparable to that of a 16-inch MacBook Pro with an Intel 6-core processor. With the A14X Bionic, its performance is much higher when compared to the A12 Bionic and A12Z Bionic.
Based on the recently-conducted performance test by 'Living on iPad,' a popular YouTube channel, the A14X bionic performed almost equal to that of a 16-inch MacBook Pro running on an Intel Core i9-9980HK. 'Living on iPad' also ran performance tests on the A12 Bionic and A12Z Bionic and while the two chips performed well, they fell way behind the A14X Bionic chip.
The numbers revealed it all. The YouTube channel conducted a performance test on an iPad with an A12 Bionic chip with another iPad running on the A12Z Bionic chip. After the tests, the iPad with the A12Z chip performed 64% better in the multi-core tests compared to the iPad with an A12 Bionic. 'Living on iPad' then went ahead to test the A12Z against the A14X Bionic.
Since the A12Z was already performing around 64% better than the A12 Bionic chip, 'Living on iPad' admitted he did not expect much increase in terms of performance. The result, however, showed otherwise. 'Living on iPad' expressed surprise at seeing that the upcoming A14X Bionic silicon chip obtained a multi-core score of 6884.
This score makes the A14X Bionic chip faster than the 16-inch MacBook Pro running on an Intel 8-core Core i9-9980H. The MacBook obtained a score of 6561, which is similar to the same machine running on an 8-core Intel Core i9-9980HK. Both Macs performed only slightly better than the A12Z Bionic chip, which already proved better than its predecessor, the A12.
Apple A14 Bionic chip far exceeds the performance of Orion 990 and Snapdragon 865 https://t.co/EdWgsMSdev #info #news #tech — Gray Hats (@the_yellow_fall) October 5, 2020
A performance investigation of the A14X Bionic chip based on earlier versions of the A-series chipsets, including the A12 and A12Z, showed that it runs equally with an 8-core Intel processor. The better-than-excellent comparison results of the A12X Bionic simply means that Apple found a way to keep the same number of cores on the upcoming flagship chipset while increasing its performance greatly.
Although the A12X Bionic and A12Z Bionic chips are more than adequate for most of the iPad Pro owners, power users will definitely want to experience what the A14X Bionic can offer. Rumors have it that an Apple TV that delivered a performance similar to that of a 14X Bionic chip was immediately sent to Apple Arcade developers, which is proof enough that there are Apple fans who wanted a faster chip inside an Apple device.
