Apple A12 Bionic vs Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2
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CPU comparison with benchmarks
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CPU comparisonApple A12 Bionic or Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2 - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results.
The Apple A12 Bionic has 6 cores with 6 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.49 GHz. Up to 4 GB of memory is supported in 1 memory channels. The Apple A12 Bionic was released in Q3/2018. The Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2 has 10 cores with 20 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.00 GHz. The CPU supports up to 768 GB of memory in 4 memory channels. The Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2 was released in Q3/2013. |
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| Apple A series (22) | Family | Intel Xeon E5 (71) |
| Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3) | CPU group | Intel Xeon E5 v2 (15) |
| 12 | Generation | 4 |
| A12 | Architecture | Ivy Bridge EP |
| Mobile | Segment | Desktop / Server |
| Apple A11 Bionic | Predecessor | -- |
| Apple A13 Bionic | Successor | Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3 |
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CPU Cores and Base FrequencyThe Apple A12 Bionic has 6 CPU cores and can calculate 6 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Apple A12 Bionic is 2.49 GHz while the Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2 has 10 CPU cores and 20 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2 is at 2.20 GHz (3.00 GHz). |
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| Apple A12 Bionic | Characteristic | Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2 |
| 6 | Cores | 10 |
| 6 | Threads | 20 |
| hybrid (big.LITTLE) | Core architecture | normal |
| No | Hyperthreading | Yes |
| No | Overclocking ? | No |
| 2.49 GHz 2x Vortex |
A-Core | 2.20 GHz (3.00 GHz) |
| 1.59 GHz 4x Tempest |
B-Core | -- |
Artificial Intelligence and Machine LearningProcessors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor. |
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| Apple A12 Bionic | Characteristic | Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2 |
| Apple Neural Engine | AI hardware | -- |
| 8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS | AI specifications | -- |
Internal GraphicsThe Apple A12 Bionic or Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die. |
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| Apple A12 | GPU | no iGPU |
| 1.13 GHz | GPU frequency | -- |
| -- | GPU (Turbo) | -- |
| 9 | GPU Generation | -- |
| 7 nm | Technology | |
| 1 | Max. displays | |
| 16 | Compute units | -- |
| 256 | Shader | -- |
| No | Hardware Raytracing | No |
| No | Frame Generation | No |
| 4 GB | Max. GPU Memory | -- |
| -- | DirectX Version | -- |
Hardware codec supportA photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos. |
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| Apple A12 | GPU | no iGPU |
| Decode / Encode | Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) | No |
| Decode / Encode | Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) | No |
| Decode / Encode | Codec h264 | No |
| Decode / Encode | Codec VP9 | No |
| Decode / Encode | Codec VP8 | No |
| No | Codec AV1 | No |
| Decode | Codec AVC | No |
| Decode | Codec VC-1 | No |
| Decode / Encode | Codec JPEG | No |
Memory & PCIeThe Apple A12 Bionic can use up to 4 GB of memory in 1 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 34.1 GB/s. The Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2 supports up to 768 GB of memory in 4 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 59.7 GB/s. |
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| Apple A12 Bionic | Characteristic | Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2 |
| LPDDR4X-4266 | Memory | DDR3-1866 |
| 4 GB | Max. Memory | 768 GB |
| 1 (Single Channel) | Memory channels | 4 (Quad Channel) |
| 34.1 GB/s | Max. Bandwidth | 59.7 GB/s |
| No | ECC | Yes |
| 8.00 MB | L2 Cache | -- |
| -- | L3 Cache | 20.00 MB |
| -- | PCIe version | 3.0 |
| -- | PCIe lanes | 40 |
| -- | PCIe Bandwidth | 39.4 GB/s |
Thermal ManagementThe thermal design power (TDP for short) of the Apple A12 Bionic is 6 W, while the Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2 has a TDP of 95 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. |
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| Apple A12 Bionic | Characteristic | Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2 |
| 6 W | TDP (PL1 / PBP) | 95 W |
| -- | TDP (PL2) | -- |
| -- | TDP up | -- |
| -- | TDP down | -- |
| -- | Tjunction max. | -- |
Technical detailsThe Apple A12 Bionic is manufactured in 7 nm and has 8.00 MB cache. The Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2 is manufactured in 22 nm and has a 20.00 MB cache. |
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| Apple A12 Bionic | Characteristic | Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2 |
| 7 nm | Technology | 22 nm |
| Chiplet | Chip design | Monolithic |
| Armv8-A (64 bit) | Instruction set (ISA) | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| -- | ISA extensions | SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX |
| -- | Socket | LGA 2011 |
| None | Virtualization | VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d |
| No | AES-NI | Yes |
| iOS | Operating systems | Windows 10, Linux |
| Q3/2018 | Release date | Q3/2013 |
| -- | Release price | 1150 $ |
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Average performance in benchmarks
⌀ Single core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks
⌀ Multi core performance in 3 CPU benchmarks
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
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Apple A12 Bionic
6C 6T @ 2.49 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2
10C 20T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
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Apple A12 Bionic
6C 6T @ 2.49 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2
10C 20T @ 2.60 GHz |
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Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
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Apple A12 Bionic
6C 6T @ 2.49 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2
10C 20T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
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Apple A12 Bionic
6C 6T @ 2.49 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2
10C 20T @ 2.60 GHz |
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Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark
Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
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Apple A12 Bionic
6C 6T @ 2.49 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2
10C 20T @ 2.60 GHz |
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Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)
Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
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Apple A12 Bionic
6C 6T @ 2.49 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2
10C 20T @ 2.60 GHz |
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iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
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Apple A12 Bionic
Apple A12 @ 1.13 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2
@ 0.00 GHz |
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AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
The AnTuTu 8 Benchmark measures the performance of a SoC. AnTuTu benchmarks the CPU, GPU, Memory as well as the UX (User Experience) by simulating browser and app usage. AnTuTu can benchmark any ARM CPU that runs under Android or iOS. Devices may not be directly compareable if the benchmark has been performed under different operating systems.
In the AnTuTu 8 benchmark, the single-core performance of a processor is only slightly weighted. The evaluation consists of the multi-core performance of the processor, the speed of the RAM and the performance of the internal graphics.
In the AnTuTu 8 benchmark, the single-core performance of a processor is only slightly weighted. The evaluation consists of the multi-core performance of the processor, the speed of the RAM and the performance of the internal graphics.
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Apple A12 Bionic
6C 6T @ 2.49 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2
10C 20T @ 2.20 GHz |
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Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.
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Apple A12 Bionic
6C 6T @ 2.49 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2
10C 20T @ 2.60 GHz |
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CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)
The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
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Apple A12 Bionic
6C 6T @ 2.49 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2
10C 20T @ 2.20 GHz |
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Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
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Apple A12 Bionic
6C 6T @ 2.49 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2
10C 20T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
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Apple A12 Bionic
6C 6T @ 2.49 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2
10C 20T @ 2.60 GHz |
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Performance for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. The performance is given in the number (trillions) of arithmetic operations per second (TOPS).
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Apple A12 Bionic
6C 6T @ 2.49 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2
10C 20T @ 2.20 GHz |
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Devices using this processor |
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| Apple A12 Bionic | Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2 |
| Apple iPhone XR Apple iPhone XS Apple iPhone XS Max Apple iPad mini (5. Gen) Apple iPad Air (3. Gen) |
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