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Apple A12Z Bionic vs Intel Core i7-8709G

Last updated: 2026-05-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A12Z Bionic

Rank 2 - 99 %

Intel Core i7-8709G

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A12Z Bionic

Rank 2 - 88 %

Intel Core i7-8709G

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,351

4C / 8T · 4.10 GHz

1,371

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,798

4C / 8T · 3.60 GHz

4,420

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

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,124

4C / 8T · 4.10 GHz

1,089

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

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,718

4C / 8T · 3.60 GHz

3,940

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12Z

1,152

AMD Radeon RX Vega M GH

3,656

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 9 Benchmark
90 entries

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Intel Core i7-8709G
Family	Apple A series (27)	Intel Core i7 (300)
CPU group	Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)	Intel Core i 8000G (5)
Architecture	A12	Kaby Lake G Refresh
Technology	7 nm	14 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Notebook
Socket		BGA 2270
Predecessor	Apple A10X Fusion
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Intel Core i7-8709G
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	4 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	4x Vortex 2.49 GHz	4x 3.10 - 4.10 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Tempest 1.59 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB
L3-Cache		8.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Intel Core i7-8709G
GPU name	Apple A12Z	AMD Radeon RX Vega M GH
GPU frequency	1.13 GHz	1.06 - 1.19 GHz
CUs / Shader	32 / 512	24 / 1536
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	1	6
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB	4 GB
Technology	7 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q1/2020	Q1/2018

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Intel Core i7-8709G
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Intel Core i7-8709G
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)	DDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	6 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		3.0 x 8
PCIe Bandwidth		7.9 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Intel Core i7-8709G
TDP	15 W	100 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Intel Core i7-8709G
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	Q1/2020	Q1/2018
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 (84 ratings), while Intel Core i7-8709G has received 5.0 stars (1 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A12Z Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i7-8709G
4C / 8T · 3.10 - 4.10 GHz

★★★★★