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Apple A12 Bionic vs Intel Core Ultra 9 288V

Last updated: 2026-06-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 46 %

Apple A12 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core Ultra 9 288V

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 21 %

Apple A12 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core Ultra 9 288V

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

1,286

8C / 8T · 5.10 GHz

2,770

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

2,353

8C / 8T · 2.20 GHz

11,050

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12

576

Intel Arc 140V

6,560

AI performance (NPU)

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

5.0 TOPS

8C / 8T · 2.20 GHz

48.0 TOPS

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

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

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Intel Core Ultra 9 288V
Family	Apple A series (27)	Intel Core Ultra 9 (12)
CPU group	Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)	Intel Core Ultra 200V (9)
Architecture	A12	Lunar Lake
Technology	7 nm	3 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Notebook
Socket		BGA 2833
Predecessor	Apple A11 Bionic
Successor	Apple A13 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Intel Core Ultra 9 288V
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x Vortex 2.49 GHz	4x Lion Cove 2.20 - 5.10 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Tempest 1.59 GHz	4x Skymont 0 - 3.70 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB	14.00 MB
L3-Cache		12.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Intel Core Ultra 9 288V
GPU name	Apple A12	Intel Arc 140V
GPU frequency	1.13 GHz	0.60 - 2.05 GHz
CUs / Shader	16 / 256	64 / 1024
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays	1	3
Max. GPU Memory	4 GB	32 GB
Technology	7 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q3/2018	Q3/2024

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Intel Core Ultra 9 288V
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	Intel® AI Boost
AI specifications	8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS	Intel AI Boost NPU 4 @ 48 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU		120 TOPS

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Intel Core Ultra 9 288V
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)	LPDDR5X-8533 (136.5 GB/s)
Max. Memory	4 GB	32 GB
Memory channels	1	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		5.0 x 8
PCIe Bandwidth		31.5 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Intel Core Ultra 9 288V
TDP	6 W	30 W
TDP (PL2)		37 W
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		110 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	Intel Core Ultra 9 288V
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	iOS	Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions		SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q3/2018	Q3/2024
Release price
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 Ultra 9 288V has received 2.7 stars (154 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core Ultra 9 288V
8C / 8T · 2.20 - 5.10 GHz

★★★★★