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Apple A13 Bionic vs Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A13 Bionic
Rank 2 - 61 %
Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y
Multi-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A13 Bionic
Rank 2 - 51 %
Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

Apple A13 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz
1,710
Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y
2C / 4T · 3.40 GHz
1,045
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Apple A13 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz
3,599
Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y
2C / 4T · 2.40 GHz
1,758
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

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

Apple A13 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz
1,336
Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y
2C / 4T · 3.40 GHz
821
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

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

Apple A13 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz
3,429
Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y
2C / 4T · 2.40 GHz
1,680
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A13 Bionic
Apple A13
691
Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y
Intel HD Graphics 615
346

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Apple A13 BionicIntel Pentium Gold 6500Y
FamilyApple A series (27)Intel Pentium (150)
CPU groupApple A13 (1)Intel Pentium 6000Y (1)
ArchitectureA13 (Lightning / Thunder)Amber Lake U
Technology7 nm14 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletNotebook
SocketBGA 1515
PredecessorApple A12 Bionic
SuccessorApple A14 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen
Apple A13 BionicIntel Pentium Gold 6500Y
CPU Cores / Threads6 / 62 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)normal
Core Cluster 1: 2x Lightning
2.65 GHz
2x
1.10 - 3.40 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 4x Thunder
1.80 GHz
L2-Cache8.00 MB
L3-Cache4.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen
Apple A13 BionicIntel Pentium Gold 6500Y
GPU nameApple A13Intel HD Graphics 615
GPU frequency1.35 GHz0.30 - 0.90 GHz
CUs / Shader16 / 25624 / 192
Raytracing
Max. displays13
Max. GPU Memory4 GB16 GB
Technology7 nm14nm
Release dateQ3/2019Q2/2016

NPU AI performance

Wischen
Apple A13 BionicIntel Pentium Gold 6500Y
AI hardwareApple Neural Engine
AI specifications8 Neural cores @ 6 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen
Apple A13 BionicIntel Pentium Gold 6500Y
MemoryLPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
LPDDR3-1866 (29.9 GB/s)
DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory4 GB16 GB
Memory channels12
ECCNoNo
PCIe3.0 x 10
PCIe Bandwidth9.9 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen
Apple A13 BionicIntel Pentium Gold 6500Y
TDP6 W5 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up7 W
TDP down3.5 W
T. junction max.100 °C

Technical details

Wischen
Apple A13 BionicIntel Pentium Gold 6500Y
Chip designChipletMonolithic
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOS
Instruction setArmv8-A (64 bit)x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensionsSSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release dateQ3/2019Q1/2021
Release price
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

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Apple A13 Bionic
Apple A13 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.65 GHz
Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y
Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y
2C / 4T · 1.10 - 3.40 GHz

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