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Apple A16 Bionic vs Intel Core i3-N300

Last updated: 2026-06-06

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 A16 Bionic

Rank 2 - 53 %

Intel Core i3-N300

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A16 Bionic

Rank 2 - 72 %

Intel Core i3-N300

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

2,531

8C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

1,280

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

6,299

8C / 8T · 2.80 GHz

4,250

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

6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

1,890

8C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

1,060

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

6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

5,465

8C / 8T · 2.80 GHz

4,193

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A16 (5 GPU Cores)

1,789

Intel UHD Graphics 13th Gen (32 EU)

640

More benchmarks

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

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 A16 Bionic	Intel Core i3-N300
Family	Apple A series (27)	Intel Core i3 (205)
CPU group	Apple A16 (2)	Intel Core i N300 (2)
Architecture	A16	Alder Lake N
Technology	4 nm	10 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Notebook
Socket		BGA
Predecessor	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
Successor	Apple A17 Pro

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Intel Core i3-N300
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	2x Everest 3.46 GHz	8x Gracemont 1.80 - 3.80 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Sawtooth 2.02 GHz
L2-Cache	20.00 MB	8.00 MB
L3-Cache	24.00 MB	6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Intel Core i3-N300
GPU name	Apple A16 (5 GPU Cores)	Intel UHD Graphics 13th Gen (32 EU)
GPU frequency	0.40 - 1.34 GHz	0.30 - 1.25 GHz
CUs / Shader	20 / 640	32 / 256
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB	64 GB
Technology	4 nm	10 nm
Release date	Q3/2022	Q1/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Intel Core i3-N300
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 17 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Intel Core i3-N300
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (51.2 GB/s)	LPDDR5-4800 (38.4 GB/s) DDR5-4800 (38.4 GB/s) DDR4-3200 (25.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	6 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	1	1
ECC	No	No
PCIe		3.0 x 9
PCIe Bandwidth		8.9 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Intel Core i3-N300
TDP	10 W	7 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Intel Core i3-N300
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	iOS	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	Armv8.6-A (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions		SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2
Release date	Q3/2022	Q1/2023
Release price		309 $
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple A16 Bionic is 4.1 stars (254 ratings), while Intel Core i3-N300 has received 3.6 stars (34 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A16 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i3-N300
8C / 8T · 1.80 - 3.80 GHz

★★★★★