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Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU) vs Intel Core Ultra 9 185H

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 2 - 94 %
Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
Multi-core performance
Rank 2 - 43 %
Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz
2,370
Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
16C / 22T · 5.10 GHz
2,522
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz
5,726
Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
16C / 22T · 4.50 GHz
11,274
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

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

Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz
1,745
Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
16C / 22T · 5.10 GHz
1,862
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

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

Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz
4,777
Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
16C / 22T · 4.50 GHz
13,430
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
Apple A15 (5 GPU Cores)
1,713
Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
Intel Iris Xe 8 Core Graphics 128 EUs (Meteor Lake)
4,658

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
FamilyApple A series (27)Intel Core Ultra 9 (12)
CPU groupApple A15 (2)Intel Core Ultra 100H (5)
ArchitectureA15Meteor Lake H
Technology5 nm7 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletNotebook
SocketBGA 2049
PredecessorApple A14 Bionic
SuccessorApple A16 BionicIntel Core Ultra 9 285H

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen
Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
CPU Cores / Threads6 / 616 / 22
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1: 2x Avalanche
3.23 GHz
6x Redwood Cove
2.30 - 5.10 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 4x Blizzard
2.02 GHz
8x Crestmont
1.80 - 3.80 GHz
Core Cluster 3: 2x Crestmont
1.00 - 2.50 GHz
L2-Cache16.00 MB18.00 MB
L3-Cache32.00 MB24.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen
Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
GPU nameApple A15 (5 GPU Cores)Intel Iris Xe 8 Core Graphics 128 EUs (Meteor Lake)
GPU frequency1.34 GHz0.60 - 2.35 GHz
CUs / Shader20 / 640128 / 1024
Raytracing
Max. displays34
Max. GPU Memory6 GB32 GB
Technology5 nm5 nm
Release dateQ3/2021Q4/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen
Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
AI hardwareApple Neural EngineIntel® AI Boost
AI specifications16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPSIntel AI Boost @ 1.4 GHz (OpenVINO, WindowsML, DirectML, ONNX RT)
NPU + CPU + iGPU34 TOPS

Memory & PCIe

Wischen
Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
MemoryLPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
LPDDR5X-7500 (120.0 GB/s)
DDR5-5600 (89.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory6 GB96 GB
Memory channels12
ECCNoNo
PCIe5.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth78.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen
Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
TDP10 W45 W
TDP (PL2)115 W
TDP up65 W
TDP down35 W
T. junction max.110 °C

Technical details

Wischen
Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
Chip designChipletChiplet
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOSWindows 11, Linux
Instruction setArmv8-A (64 bit)x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensionsSSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release dateQ3/2021Q4/2023
Release price
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

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Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz
Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
16C / 22T · 2.30 - 5.10 GHz

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