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Apple A12 Bionic vs Intel Core i9-12900HX

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 2 - 56 %
Apple A12 Bionic
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core i9-12900HX
Multi-core performance
Rank 2 - 16 %
Apple A12 Bionic
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core i9-12900HX
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
1,286
Intel Core i9-12900HX
16C / 24T · 5.00 GHz
2,425
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
2,353
Intel Core i9-12900HX
16C / 24T · 2.30 GHz
14,620
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

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

Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
1,116
Intel Core i9-12900HX
16C / 24T · 5.00 GHz
1,861
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

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

Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
2,731
Intel Core i9-12900HX
16C / 24T · 2.30 GHz
15,474
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12 Bionic
Apple A12
576
Intel Core i9-12900HX
Intel UHD Graphics 770
794

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicIntel Core i9-12900HX
FamilyApple A series (27)Intel Core i9 (81)
CPU groupApple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)Intel Core i 12000H (23)
ArchitectureA12Alder Lake H
Technology7 nm10 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletNotebook
SocketLGA 1700
PredecessorApple A11 Bionic
SuccessorApple A13 BionicIntel Core i9-13900HX

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicIntel Core i9-12900HX
CPU Cores / Threads6 / 616 / 24
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1: 2x Vortex
2.49 GHz
8x Golden Cove
2.30 - 5.00 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 4x Tempest
1.59 GHz
8x Gracemont
1.70 - 3.60 GHz
L2-Cache8.00 MB14.00 MB
L3-Cache30.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Apple A12 BionicIntel Core i9-12900HX
GPU nameApple A12Intel UHD Graphics 770
GPU frequency1.13 GHz0.30 - 1.55 GHz
CUs / Shader16 / 25632 / 256
Raytracing
Max. displays13
Max. GPU Memory4 GB64 GB
Technology7 nm10 nm
Release dateQ3/2018Q4/2021

NPU AI performance

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicIntel Core i9-12900HX
AI hardwareApple Neural Engine
AI specifications8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicIntel Core i9-12900HX
MemoryLPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
LPDDR5-5200 (83.2 GB/s)
DDR5-4800 (76.8 GB/s)
LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)
DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory4 GB128 GB
Memory channels12
ECCNoNo
PCIe5.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth78.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicIntel Core i9-12900HX
TDP6 W55 W
TDP (PL2)157 W
TDP up86 W
TDP down45 W
T. junction max.100 °C

Technical details

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicIntel Core i9-12900HX
Chip designChipletMonolithic
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOSWindows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction setArmv8-A (64 bit)x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensionsSSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX2+
Release dateQ3/2018Q2/2022
Release price606 $
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

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Apple A12 Bionic
Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
Intel Core i9-12900HX
Intel Core i9-12900HX
16C / 24T · 2.30 - 5.00 GHz

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