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Apple A13 Bionic vs Intel Core i9-10900X

Last updated: 2026-06-02

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 A13 Bionic

Rank 2 - 86 %

Intel Core i9-10900X

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 32 %

Apple A13 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i9-10900X

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz

1,710

10C / 20T · 4.70 GHz

1,445

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz

3,599

10C / 20T · 4.50 GHz

8,727

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

6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz

1,336

10C / 20T · 4.70 GHz

1,171

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

6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz

3,429

10C / 20T · 4.50 GHz

10,651

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

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 entries

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Intel Core i9-10900X
Family	Apple A series (27)	Intel Core i9 (81)
CPU group	Apple A13 (1)	Intel Core i 10000X (4)
Architecture	A13 (Lightning / Thunder)	Cascade Lake
Technology	7 nm	14 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Desktop
Socket		LGA 2066
Predecessor	Apple A12 Bionic	Intel Core i9-9900X
Successor	Apple A14 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Intel Core i9-10900X
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	10 / 20
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	2x Lightning 2.65 GHz	10x 3.70 - 4.70 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Thunder 1.80 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB
L3-Cache		19.25 MB
Overclocking	✗	✓

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Intel Core i9-10900X
GPU name	Apple A13	no iGPU
GPU frequency	1.35 GHz
CUs / Shader	16 / 256	/
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	1
Max. GPU Memory	4 GB
Technology	7 nm
Release date	Q3/2019

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Intel Core i9-10900X
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	8 Neural cores @ 6 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Intel Core i9-10900X
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)	DDR4-2933 (93.8 GB/s)
Max. Memory	4 GB	256 GB
Memory channels	1	4
ECC	No	No
PCIe		3.0 x 48
PCIe Bandwidth		47.3 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Intel Core i9-10900X
TDP	6 W	165 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		94 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A13 Bionic	Intel Core i9-10900X
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, AVX-512
Release date	Q3/2019	Q4/2019
Release price		590 $
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 i9-10900X has received 4.6 stars (13 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A13 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i9-10900X
10C / 20T · 3.70 - 4.70 GHz

★★★★★