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Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) vs Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3

Last updated: 2026-06-03

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 A15 Bionic (4-GPU)

Rank 2 - 47 %

Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 93 %

Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

2,370

8C / 16T · 3.20 GHz

1,069

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

5,726

8C / 16T · 2.80 GHz

5,468

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

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

1,745

8C / 16T · 3.20 GHz

841

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

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

4,777

8C / 16T · 2.80 GHz

5,821

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

AnTuTu 10 Benchmark
25 entries

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)	Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3
Family	Apple A series (27)	Intel Xeon E5 (76)
CPU group	Apple A15 (2)	Intel Xeon E5 v3 (34)
Architecture	A15	Haswell E
Technology	5 nm	22 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Desktop
Socket		LGA 2011-3
Predecessor		Intel Xeon E5-2630 v2
Successor	Apple A16 Bionic (5-CPU 4-GPU)	Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)	Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	8 / 16
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	2x Avalanche 3.23 GHz	8x 2.40 - 3.20 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Blizzard 2.02 GHz
L2-Cache	16.00 MB
L3-Cache	32.00 MB	20.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)	Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3
GPU name	Apple A15 (4 GPU Cores)	no iGPU
GPU frequency	1.34 GHz
CUs / Shader	16 / 512	/
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB
Technology	5 nm
Release date	Q3/2021

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)	Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3
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 Xeon E5-2630 v3
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)	DDR4-2133 (68.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	6 GB	768 GB
Memory channels	1	4
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe		3.0 x 40
PCIe Bandwidth		39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)	Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3
TDP	10 W	85 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)	Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	iOS	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions		SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q3/2021	Q3/2014
Release price
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 Xeon E5-2630 v3 has received 4.6 stars (14 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

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

★★★★★

Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3
8C / 16T · 2.40 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★