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Apple A12X Bionic vs Intel Core Ultra 5 245K

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 - 47 %

Apple A12X Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core Ultra 5 245K

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 24 %

Apple A12X Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core Ultra 5 245K

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

991 pts

14C / 14T · 5.20 GHz

2,175 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,539 pts

14C / 14T · 5.00 GHz

25,188 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,341

14C / 14T · 5.20 GHz

3,048

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,745

14C / 14T · 5.00 GHz

17,766

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

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,124

14C / 14T · 5.20 GHz

2,251

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

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,718

14C / 14T · 5.00 GHz

18,364

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12X

1,008

Intel Xe 4 Core Graphics 64 EUs (Arrow Lake)

1,890

AI performance (NPU)

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

5.0 TOPS

14C / 14T · 4.20 GHz

13.0 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

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 A12X Bionic	Intel Core Ultra 5 245K
Family	Apple A series (27)	Intel Core Ultra 5 (35)
CPU group	Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)	Intel Core Ultra 200 AL-S (20)
Architecture	A12	Arrow Lake
Technology	7 nm	3 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Desktop
Socket		LGA 1851
Predecessor	Apple A10X Fusion
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A12X Bionic	Intel Core Ultra 5 245K
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	14 / 14
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x Vortex 2.49 GHz	6x Lion Cove 4.20 - 5.20 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Tempest 1.59 GHz	8x Skymont 3.60 - 4.60 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB	26.00 MB
L3-Cache		24.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✓

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A12X Bionic	Intel Core Ultra 5 245K
GPU name	Apple A12X	Intel Xe 4 Core Graphics 64 EUs (Arrow Lake)
GPU frequency	1.13 GHz	0.30 - 1.90 GHz
CUs / Shader	28 / 448	4 / 512
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays	1	3
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB	32 GB
Technology	7 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q3/2018	Q3/2024

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A12X Bionic	Intel Core Ultra 5 245K
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	Intel® AI Boost
AI specifications	8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS	Intel AI Boost NPU 4 @ 13 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU		37 TOPS

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A12X Bionic	Intel Core Ultra 5 245K
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)	DDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	6 GB	256 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe		5.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth		78.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A12X Bionic	Intel Core Ultra 5 245K
TDP	15 W	125 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up		159 W
TDP down
T. junction max.		105 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A12X Bionic	Intel Core Ultra 5 245K
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	Q4/2024
Release price		309 $
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 Ultra 5 245K has received 4.1 stars (72 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A12X Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core Ultra 5 245K
14C / 14T · 4.20 - 5.20 GHz

★★★★★