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Apple A12 Bionic vs Intel Core i7-11700

Last updated: 2026-05-05

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 62 %

Apple A12 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-11700

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 26 %

Apple A12 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-11700

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

1,286

8C / 16T · 4.90 GHz

2,196

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

2,353

8C / 16T · 3.80 GHz

9,387

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

1,116

8C / 16T · 4.90 GHz

1,721

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

2,731

8C / 16T · 3.80 GHz

9,872

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12

576

Intel UHD Graphics 750

666

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Monero Hashrate
94 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Intel Core i7-11700
Family	Apple A series (27)	Intel Core i7 (300)
CPU group	Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)	Intel Core i 11000 (22)
Architecture	A12	Rocket Lake S
Technology	7 nm	14 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Desktop
Socket		LGA 1200
Predecessor	Apple A11 Bionic	Intel Core i7-10700
Successor	Apple A13 Bionic	Intel Core i7-12700

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Intel Core i7-11700
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	8 / 16
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	2x Vortex 2.49 GHz	8x 2.50 - 4.90 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Tempest 1.59 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB	4.00 MB
L3-Cache		16.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Intel Core i7-11700
GPU name	Apple A12	Intel UHD Graphics 750
GPU frequency	1.13 GHz	0.35 - 1.30 GHz
CUs / Shader	16 / 256	32 / 256
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	1	3
Max. GPU Memory	4 GB	64 GB
Technology	7 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q3/2018	Q1/2021

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Intel Core i7-11700
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Intel Core i7-11700
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)	DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	4 GB	128 GB
Memory channels	1	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		4.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth		39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Intel Core i7-11700
TDP	6 W	65 W
TDP (PL2)		224 W @ 56 s
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Intel Core i7-11700
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	iOS	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions		SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
Release date	Q3/2018	Q1/2021
Release price		323 $
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple A12 Bionic is 3.4 stars (106 ratings), while Intel Core i7-11700 has received 4.2 stars (33 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i7-11700
8C / 16T · 2.50 - 4.90 GHz

★★★★★