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Apple A12X Bionic vs Intel Core i5-9500

Last updated: 2026-06-05

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 95 %

Apple A12X Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-9500

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 99 %

Apple A12X Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-9500

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,341

6C / 6T · 4.40 GHz

1,427

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,745

6C / 6T · 4.00 GHz

5,424

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

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,124

6C / 6T · 4.40 GHz

1,168

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

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,718

6C / 6T · 4.00 GHz

4,736

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12X

1,008

Intel UHD Graphics 630

422

More benchmarks

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-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A12X Bionic	Intel Core i5-9500
Family	Apple A series (27)	Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU group	Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)	Intel Core i 9000 (34)
Architecture	A12	Coffee Lake S Refresh
Technology	7 nm	14 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Desktop
Socket		LGA 1151-2
Predecessor	Apple A10X Fusion	Intel Core i5-8500
Successor		Intel Core i5-10500

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A12X Bionic	Intel Core i5-9500
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	6 / 6
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	4x Vortex 2.49 GHz	6x 3.00 - 4.40 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Tempest 1.59 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB
L3-Cache		9.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A12X Bionic	Intel Core i5-9500
GPU name	Apple A12X	Intel UHD Graphics 630
GPU frequency	1.13 GHz	0.35 - 1.10 GHz
CUs / Shader	28 / 448	24 / 192
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	1	3
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB	64 GB
Technology	7 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q3/2018	Q4/2017

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A12X Bionic	Intel Core i5-9500
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A12X Bionic	Intel Core i5-9500
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)	DDR4-2666 (42.7 GB/s)
Max. Memory	6 GB	128 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth		15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A12X Bionic	Intel Core i5-9500
TDP	15 W	65 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A12X Bionic	Intel Core i5-9500
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	iOS	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions		SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q3/2018	Q2/2019
Release price		260 $
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple A12X Bionic is 4.2 stars (81 ratings), while Intel Core i5-9500 has received 3.9 stars (44 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A12X Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i5-9500
6C / 6T · 3.00 - 4.40 GHz

★★★★★