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Apple A12 Bionic vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A12 Bionic
Rank 2 - 64 %
Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2
Multi-core performance
Rank 2 - 38 %
Apple A12 Bionic
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
1,286
Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2
10C / 20T · 3.60 GHz
712
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
2,353
Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2
10C / 20T · 3.30 GHz
4,996
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

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

Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
1,116
Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2
10C / 20T · 3.60 GHz
802
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

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

Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
2,731
Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2
10C / 20T · 3.30 GHz
7,288

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicIntel Xeon E5-2690 v2
FamilyApple A series (27)Intel Xeon E5 (76)
CPU groupApple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)Intel Xeon E5 v2 (15)
ArchitectureA12Ivy Bridge EP
Technology7 nm22 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletDesktop
SocketLGA 2011
PredecessorApple A11 Bionic
SuccessorApple A13 BionicIntel Xeon E5-2690 v3

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicIntel Xeon E5-2690 v2
CPU Cores / Threads6 / 610 / 20
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)normal
Core Cluster 1: 2x Vortex
2.49 GHz
10x
3.00 - 3.60 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 4x Tempest
1.59 GHz
L2-Cache8.00 MB
L3-Cache25.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicIntel Xeon E5-2690 v2
GPU nameApple A12no iGPU
GPU frequency1.13 GHz
CUs / Shader16 / 256 /
Raytracing
Max. displays1
Max. GPU Memory4 GB
Technology7 nm
Release dateQ3/2018

NPU AI performance

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicIntel Xeon E5-2690 v2
AI hardwareApple Neural Engine
AI specifications8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicIntel Xeon E5-2690 v2
MemoryLPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
DDR3-1866 (59.7 GB/s)
Max. Memory4 GB768 GB
Memory channels14
ECCNoYes
PCIe3.0 x 40
PCIe Bandwidth39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicIntel Xeon E5-2690 v2
TDP6 W130 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen
Apple A12 BionicIntel Xeon E5-2690 v2
Chip designChipletMonolithic
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOSWindows 10, Linux
Instruction setArmv8-A (64 bit)x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensionsSSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
Release dateQ3/2018Q3/2013
Release price1700 $
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

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Apple A12 Bionic
Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2
Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2
10C / 20T · 3.00 - 3.60 GHz

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