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Apple A12 Bionic vs Intel Core i7-965
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Benchmarks
Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks
Single-core performance
Multi-core performance
Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance
Apple A12 Bionic
100 %
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
Intel Core i7-965
47 %
4C / 8T · 3.46 GHz
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance
Apple A12 Bionic
100 %
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
Intel Core i7-965
92 %
4C / 8T · 3.20 GHz
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance
Apple A12 Bionic
100 %
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
Intel Core i7-965
52 %
4C / 8T · 3.46 GHz
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance
Apple A12 Bionic
100 %
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
Intel Core i7-965
89 %
4C / 8T · 3.20 GHz
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Specifications
At a glance
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Wischen
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Apple A12 Bionic | Intel Core i7-965 |
|---|---|---|
| Family | Apple A series (27) | Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition (24) |
| CPU group | Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3) | Intel Core i7 900 (7) |
| Architecture | A12 | Bloomfield |
| Technology | 7 nm | 45 nm |
| Segment | Smartphone / Tablet | Desktop |
| Socket | LGA 1366 | |
| Predecessor | Apple A11 Bionic | |
| Successor | Apple A13 Bionic |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
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Wischen
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Apple A12 Bionic | Intel Core i7-965 |
|---|---|---|
| CPU Cores / Threads | 6 / 6 | 4 / 8 |
| Hyperthreading / SMT | ✗ | ✓ |
| Core architecture | hybrid (big.LITTLE) | normal |
| Core Cluster 1: | 2x Vortex 2.49 GHz |
4x 3.20 - 3.46 GHz |
| Core Cluster 2: | 4x Tempest 1.59 GHz |
|
| L2-Cache | 8.00 MB | 1.00 MB |
| L3-Cache | 8.00 MB | |
| Overclocking | ✗ | ✓ |
Integrated graphics (iGPU)
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Wischen
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Apple A12 Bionic | Intel Core i7-965 |
|---|---|---|
| GPU name | Apple A12 | no iGPU |
| GPU frequency | 1.13 GHz | |
| CUs / Shader | 16 / 256 | / |
| Raytracing | ✗ | ✗ |
| Max. displays | 1 | |
| Max. GPU Memory | 4 GB | |
| Technology | 7 nm | |
| Release date | Q3/2018 |
NPU AI performance
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Wischen
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Apple A12 Bionic | Intel Core i7-965 |
|---|---|---|
| AI hardware | Apple Neural Engine | |
| AI specifications | 8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS | |
| NPU + CPU + iGPU |
Memory & PCIe
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Wischen
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Apple A12 Bionic | Intel Core i7-965 |
|---|---|---|
| Memory | LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s) | DDR3-1066 (25.6 GB/s) |
| Max. Memory | 4 GB | 24 GB |
| Memory channels | 1 | 3 |
| ECC | No | No |
| PCIe | ||
| PCIe Bandwidth |
Thermal Management
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Wischen
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Apple A12 Bionic | Intel Core i7-965 |
|---|---|---|
| TDP | 6 W | 130 W |
| TDP (PL2) | ||
| TDP up | ||
| TDP down | ||
| T. junction max. |
Technical details
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Wischen
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Apple A12 Bionic | Intel Core i7-965 |
|---|---|---|
| Chip design | Chiplet | Monolithic |
| AES-NI | ✗ | ✗ |
| Operating systems | iOS | Windows 10, Linux |
| Instruction set | Armv8-A (64 bit) | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| ISA extensions | SSE4.1, SSE4.2 | |
| Release date | Q3/2018 | Q4/2008 |
| Release price | 990 $ | |
| Documents | Technical data sheet |
User Reviews
Your rating
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Most popular CPUs in both categories
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Apple M3 Ultra (28-CPU 60-GPU)
28C / 28T · 4.06 GHz
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Apple M3 Ultra (32-CPU 80-GPU)
32C / 32T · 4.06 GHz
3
Intel Celeron 450
1C / 1T · 0.00 GHz
4
Intel Core i5-13600KF
14C / 20T · 5.10 GHz
5
AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT
8C / 16T · 4.80 GHz
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Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4
14C / 28T · 3.30 GHz
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8C / 16T · 4.60 GHz
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Intel Core i7-965
4C / 8T · 3.46 GHz
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Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 0.00 GHz
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