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Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU) vs Intel Core i7-2635QM

Last updated: 2026-06-05

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 (5-GPU)

Rank 2 - 27 %

Intel Core i7-2635QM

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)

Rank 2 - 39 %

Intel Core i7-2635QM

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

2,370

4C / 8T · 2.90 GHz

510

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

5,726

4C / 8T · 2.00 GHz

1,729

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

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

1,745

4C / 8T · 2.90 GHz

579

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

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

4,777

4C / 8T · 2.00 GHz

2,286

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A15 (5 GPU Cores)

1,713

Intel HD Graphics 3000

230

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

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)	Intel Core i7-2635QM
Family	Apple A series (27)	Intel Core i7 (300)
CPU group	Apple A15 (2)	Intel Core i 2000M (46)
Architecture	A15	Sandy Bridge H
Technology	5 nm	32 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Notebook
Socket		BGA 1224
Predecessor	Apple A14 Bionic
Successor	Apple A16 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)	Intel Core i7-2635QM
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	4 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	2x Avalanche 3.23 GHz	4x 2.00 - 2.90 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Blizzard 2.02 GHz
L2-Cache	16.00 MB
L3-Cache	32.00 MB	6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)	Intel Core i7-2635QM
GPU name	Apple A15 (5 GPU Cores)	Intel HD Graphics 3000
GPU frequency	1.34 GHz	0.65 - 1.20 GHz
CUs / Shader	20 / 640	12 / 96
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	2
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB	2 GB
Technology	5 nm	32 nm
Release date	Q3/2021	Q1/2011

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)	Intel Core i7-2635QM
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)	Intel Core i7-2635QM
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)	DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s) DDR3-1066 (17.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory	6 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	1	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		2.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth		8.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)	Intel Core i7-2635QM
TDP	10 W	45 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)	Intel Core i7-2635QM
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, AVX
Release date	Q3/2021	Q1/2011
Release price		270 $
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 (5-GPU) is 4.2 stars (195 ratings), while Intel Core i7-2635QM has received 5.0 stars (1 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i7-2635QM
4C / 8T · 2.00 - 2.90 GHz

★★★★★