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Apple A13 Bionic vs Intel Core i3-12300

Last updated: 2026-06-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 77 %

Apple A13 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i3-12300

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 41 %

Apple A13 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i3-12300

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz

1,710

4C / 8T · 4.40 GHz

2,235

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz

3,599

4C / 8T · 4.20 GHz

8,288

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

6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz

1,336

4C / 8T · 4.40 GHz

1,739

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

6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz

3,429

4C / 8T · 4.20 GHz

7,834

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A13

691

Intel UHD Graphics 730

557

More benchmarks

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

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Intel Core i3-12300
Family	Apple A series (27)	Intel Core i3 (205)
CPU group	Apple A13 (1)	Intel Core i 12000 (34)
Architecture	A13 (Lightning / Thunder)	Alder Lake S
Technology	7 nm	10 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Desktop
Socket		LGA 1700
Predecessor	Apple A12 Bionic
Successor	Apple A14 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Intel Core i3-12300
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	4 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	2x Lightning 2.65 GHz	4x Golden Cove 3.50 - 4.40 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Thunder 1.80 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB	5.00 MB
L3-Cache		12.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Intel Core i3-12300
GPU name	Apple A13	Intel UHD Graphics 730
GPU frequency	1.35 GHz	0.30 - 1.45 GHz
CUs / Shader	16 / 256	24 / 192
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	1	3
Max. GPU Memory	4 GB	64 GB
Technology	7 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q3/2019	Q1/2021

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Intel Core i3-12300
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	8 Neural cores @ 6 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Intel Core i3-12300
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)	DDR5-4800 (76.8 GB/s) DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	4 GB	128 GB
Memory channels	1	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		5.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth		78.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Intel Core i3-12300
TDP	6 W	60 W
TDP (PL2)		89 W
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Intel Core i3-12300
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	Q3/2019	Q1/2022
Release price		143 $
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple A13 Bionic is 3.8 stars (186 ratings), while Intel Core i3-12300 has received 4.8 stars (6 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A13 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i3-12300
4C / 8T · 3.50 - 4.40 GHz

★★★★★