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Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) vs Intel Core i9-14900

Last updated: 2026-07-02

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 80 %

Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i9-14900

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 26 %

Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i9-14900

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

2,370

24C / 32T · 5.80 GHz

2,947

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

5,726

24C / 32T · 5.40 GHz

20,495

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

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

1,745

24C / 32T · 5.80 GHz

2,202

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

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

4,777

24C / 32T · 5.40 GHz

20,150

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A15 (4 GPU Cores)

1,370

Intel UHD Graphics 770

846

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

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

AnTuTu 10 Benchmark
25 entries

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)	Intel Core i9-14900
Family	Apple A series (27)	Intel Core i9 (81)
CPU group	Apple A15 (2)	Intel Core i 14000 (34)
Architecture	A15	Raptor Lake S Refresh
Technology	5 nm	10 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Desktop
Socket		LGA 1700
Predecessor		Intel Core i9-13900
Successor	Apple A16 Bionic (5-CPU 4-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)	Intel Core i9-14900
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	24 / 32
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x Avalanche 3.23 GHz	8x Raptor Cove 2.00 - 5.80 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Blizzard 2.02 GHz	16x Gracemont 1.50 - 4.30 GHz
L2-Cache	16.00 MB	32.00 MB
L3-Cache	32.00 MB	36.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)	Intel Core i9-14900
GPU name	Apple A15 (4 GPU Cores)	Intel UHD Graphics 770
GPU frequency	1.34 GHz	0.30 - 1.65 GHz
CUs / Shader	16 / 512	32 / 256
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB	64 GB
Technology	5 nm	10 nm
Release date	Q3/2021	Q4/2021

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)	Intel Core i9-14900
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)	Intel Core i9-14900
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)	DDR5-5600 (89.6 GB/s) DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	6 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 A15 Bionic (4-GPU)	Intel Core i9-14900
TDP	10 W	65 W
TDP (PL2)		219 W
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)	Intel Core i9-14900
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	Q3/2021	Q1/2024
Release price		549 $
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) is 4.4 stars (99 ratings), while Intel Core i9-14900 has received 4.0 stars (47 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i9-14900
24C / 32T · 2.00 - 5.80 GHz

★★★★★