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Apple A12Z Bionic vs Intel Core M-5Y10c

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 - 49 %

Intel Core M-5Y10c

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A12Z Bionic

Rank 2 - 26 %

Intel Core M-5Y10c

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,351

2C / 4T · 2.00 GHz

695

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,798

2C / 4T · 1.60 GHz

1,328

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

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,124

2C / 4T · 2.00 GHz

527

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

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,718

2C / 4T · 1.60 GHz

1,184

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12Z

1,152

Intel HD Graphics 5300

307

More benchmarks

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

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 M-5Y10c
Family	Apple A series (27)	Intel Core M (16)
CPU group	Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)	Intel Core M 5 (7)
Architecture	A12	Broadwell Y
Technology	7 nm	14 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Notebook
Socket		BGA 1234
Predecessor	Apple A10X Fusion
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Intel Core M-5Y10c
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	2 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	4x Vortex 2.49 GHz	2x 0.80 - 2.00 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Tempest 1.59 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB
L3-Cache		4.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Intel Core M-5Y10c
GPU name	Apple A12Z	Intel HD Graphics 5300
GPU frequency	1.13 GHz	0.30 - 0.80 GHz
CUs / Shader	32 / 512	24 / 192
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	1	3
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB	16 GB
Technology	7 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q1/2020	Q3/2014

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Intel Core M-5Y10c
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Intel Core M-5Y10c
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)	DDR3L-1600 (25.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	6 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		2.0 x 12
PCIe Bandwidth		6.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Intel Core M-5Y10c
TDP	15 W	4.5 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Intel Core M-5Y10c
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	iOS
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions		SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q1/2020	Q4/2014
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 M-5Y10c has received 4.8 stars (6 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A12Z Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core M-5Y10c
2C / 4T · 0.80 - 2.00 GHz

★★★★★