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Apple A13 Bionic vs Intel Core i5-13500HX

Last updated: 2026-06-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 75 %

Apple A13 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-13500HX

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 24 %

Apple A13 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-13500HX

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz

1,710

14C / 20T · 4.70 GHz

2,356

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz

3,599

14C / 20T · 4.10 GHz

12,647

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

6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz

1,336

14C / 20T · 4.70 GHz

1,743

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

6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz

3,429

14C / 20T · 4.10 GHz

13,650

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A13

691

Intel UHD Graphics 13th Gen (16 EU)

384

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

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 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

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Intel Core i5-13500HX
Family	Apple A series (27)	Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU group	Apple A13 (1)	Intel Core i 13000H (26)
Architecture	A13 (Lightning / Thunder)	Raptor Lake H
Technology	7 nm	10 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Notebook
Socket		BGA 1744
Predecessor	Apple A12 Bionic
Successor	Apple A14 Bionic	Intel Core i5-14500HX

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Intel Core i5-13500HX
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	14 / 20
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x Lightning 2.65 GHz	6x Raptor Cove 2.50 - 4.70 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Thunder 1.80 GHz	8x Gracemont 1.80 - 3.50 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB	20.00 MB
L3-Cache		24.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Intel Core i5-13500HX
GPU name	Apple A13	Intel UHD Graphics 13th Gen (16 EU)
GPU frequency	1.35 GHz	0.40 - 1.50 GHz
CUs / Shader	16 / 256	16 / 128
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	1	3
Max. GPU Memory	4 GB	64 GB
Technology	7 nm	10 nm
Release date	Q3/2019	Q1/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Intel Core i5-13500HX
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	8 Neural cores @ 6 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Intel Core i5-13500HX
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)	DDR5-4800 (76.8 GB/s) DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	4 GB	192 GB
Memory channels	1	2
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe		5.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth		78.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Intel Core i5-13500HX
TDP	6 W	55 W
TDP (PL2)		157 W
TDP up		86 W
TDP down		45 W
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Intel Core i5-13500HX
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	Q1/2023
Release price		326 $
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 (183 ratings), while Intel Core i5-13500HX has received 4.6 stars (29 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A13 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i5-13500HX
14C / 20T · 2.50 - 4.70 GHz

★★★★★