Apple A12Z Bionic GPU vs Qualcomm Adreno 643 vs Qualcomm Adreno 685
Apple A12Z Bionic GPU
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The Apple A12Z Bionic graphics card is the integrated GPU in the Apple A12Z Bionic SoC in the 2020 iPad Pro models. It was designed by Apple and not licensed by PowerVR and should be based on the same architecture as the A12X and A12 GPUs with more cores. The A12Z offer 8 GPU cores, where the older A12X in the 2018 iPad Pro series offered 7. Interestingly, Apple did not choose to create a new variant of the current Apple A13 chip used in the iPhone 11 models.
The architecture should be similar to the older PowerVR graphics cards like the A10 GPU, but currently Apple is not disclosing any information about the architecture.
The performance should be slightly faster than the old iPad pro models and therefore significantly faster than the iPhone SoCs and Android competitors.
The chip should be still manufactured in 7nm at TSMC and offer a very good efficiency.
Qualcomm Adreno 643
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The Qualcomm Adreno 643 is an integrated graphics unit (iGPU) that is used in the Qualcomm QCM6490 and QCS6490. The SoC is not only intended for use in Android-based smartphones and tablets, but also for IoT products with Linux, Ubuntu or Windows 11 IoT Enterprise. In the QCM6490 and QCS6490 the 643 clocks at 812 MHz.
Qualcomm Adreno 685
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The Qualcomm Adreno 685 is an integrated graphics card in the Microsoft SQ1 ARM-based SoC. It is similar to the Adreno 680 in the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx SoC for Windows laptops but higher clocked and therefore with a higher theoretical performance (2 versus 1.8 TFlops).
Apple A12Z Bionic GPU | Qualcomm Adreno 643 | Qualcomm Adreno 685 | ||||||||||
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Pipelines | 8 - unified | |||||||||||
Shared Memory | no | yes | yes | |||||||||
technology | 7 nm | 6 nm | 7 nm | |||||||||
Date of Announcement | 18.03.2020 | 12.08.2021 | 06.12.2018 | |||||||||
Core Speed | 812 MHz | |||||||||||
API | DirectX 12, OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL 2.0, Vulkan 1.x | DirectX 12 | ||||||||||
Features | OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL 2.0, DirectX 12, Vulkan 1.1 | |||||||||||
Power Consumption | 7 Watt |
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