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Apple A12Z Bionic vs Intel Core i7-12700HL

Last updated: 2026-07-01

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 61 %

Apple A12Z Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-12700HL

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 36 %

Apple A12Z Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-12700HL

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

991 pts

14C / 20T · 4.70 GHz

1,806 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,539 pts

14C / 20T · 3.80 GHz

16,745 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,351

14C / 20T · 4.70 GHz

2,280

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,798

14C / 20T · 3.80 GHz

11,424

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

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,124

14C / 20T · 4.70 GHz

1,607

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

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,718

14C / 20T · 3.80 GHz

12,103

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12Z

1,152

Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96 (Alder Lake)

2,146

More benchmarks

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

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 entries

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Intel Core i7-12700HL
Family	Apple A series (27)	Intel Core i7 (300)
CPU group	Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)	Intel Core i 12000H (23)
Architecture	A12	Alder Lake H
Technology	7 nm	10 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Notebook
Socket		BGA 1744
Predecessor	Apple A10X Fusion
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Intel Core i7-12700HL
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	14 / 20
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x Vortex 2.49 GHz	6x Golden Cove 2.30 - 4.70 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Tempest 1.59 GHz	8x Gracemont 1.70 - 3.50 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB	11.50 MB
L3-Cache		24.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Intel Core i7-12700HL
GPU name	Apple A12Z	Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96 (Alder Lake)
GPU frequency	1.13 GHz	0.40 - 1.40 GHz
CUs / Shader	32 / 512	96 / 768
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	1	4
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB	32 GB
Technology	7 nm	10 nm
Release date	Q1/2020	Q1/2022

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Intel Core i7-12700HL
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Intel Core i7-12700HL
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)	DDR5-4800 (76.8 GB/s) DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	6 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		4.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth		39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Intel Core i7-12700HL
TDP	15 W	45 W
TDP (PL2)		115 W
TDP up		60 W
TDP down		35 W
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Intel Core i7-12700HL
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, AVX2+
Release date	Q1/2020	Q3/2022
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 A12Z Bionic is 4.2 stars (87 ratings), while Intel Core i7-12700HL has received 4.5 stars (2 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A12Z Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i7-12700HL
14C / 20T · 2.30 - 4.70 GHz

★★★★★