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Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU) vs Intel Core i7-4960HQ

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 - 49 %

Intel Core i7-4960HQ

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)

Rank 2 - 70 %

Intel Core i7-4960HQ

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

2,370

4C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

1,084

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

5,726

4C / 8T · 2.60 GHz

3,827

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

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

1,745

4C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

906

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

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

4,777

4C / 8T · 2.60 GHz

3,538

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A15 (5 GPU Cores)

1,713

Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200

832

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 i7-4960HQ
Family	Apple A series (27)	Intel Core i7 (300)
CPU group	Apple A15 (2)	Intel Core i 4000M/4000H (38)
Architecture	A15	Haswell H
Technology	5 nm	22 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Notebook
Socket		BGA 1364
Predecessor	Apple A14 Bionic
Successor	Apple A16 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)	Intel Core i7-4960HQ
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	4 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	2x Avalanche 3.23 GHz	4x 2.60 - 3.80 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 i7-4960HQ
GPU name	Apple A15 (5 GPU Cores)	Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200
GPU frequency	1.34 GHz	0.20 - 1.30 GHz
CUs / Shader	20 / 640	40 / 320
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB	2 GB
Technology	5 nm	22 nm
Release date	Q3/2021	Q2/2013

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)	Intel Core i7-4960HQ
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 i7-4960HQ
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)	DDR3L-1600 (25.6 GB/s) DDR3L-1333 (21.3 GB/s)
Max. Memory	6 GB	32 GB
Memory channels	1	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth		15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)	Intel Core i7-4960HQ
TDP	10 W	47 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)	Intel Core i7-4960HQ
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	Q4/2013
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 (5-GPU) is 4.2 stars (197 ratings), while Intel Core i7-4960HQ has received 4.3 stars (3 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

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

★★★★★

Intel Core i7-4960HQ
4C / 8T · 2.60 - 3.80 GHz

★★★★★