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Apple A16 Bionic vs Intel Core i9-14900KF

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 2 - 78 %

Apple A16 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i9-14900KF

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 24 %

Apple A16 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i9-14900KF

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

2,531

24C / 32T · 6.00 GHz

3,289

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

6,299

24C / 32T · 5.70 GHz

23,051

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

6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

1,890

24C / 32T · 6.00 GHz

2,412

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

6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

5,465

24C / 32T · 5.70 GHz

26,972

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

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

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 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 i9-14900KF
Family	Apple A series (27)	Intel Core i9 (81)
CPU group	Apple A16 (2)	Intel Core i 14000 (34)
Architecture	A16	Raptor Lake S Refresh
Technology	4 nm	10 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Desktop
Socket		LGA 1700
Predecessor	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)	Intel Core i9-13900KF
Successor	Apple A17 Pro

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Intel Core i9-14900KF
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	24 / 32
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x Everest 3.46 GHz	8x Raptor Cove 3.20 - 6.00 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Sawtooth 2.02 GHz	16x Gracemont 2.40 - 4.40 GHz
L2-Cache	20.00 MB	32.00 MB
L3-Cache	24.00 MB	36.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✓

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Intel Core i9-14900KF
GPU name	Apple A16 (5 GPU Cores)	no iGPU
GPU frequency	0.40 - 1.34 GHz
CUs / Shader	20 / 640	/
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB
Technology	4 nm
Release date	Q3/2022

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Intel Core i9-14900KF
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 17 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Intel Core i9-14900KF
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (51.2 GB/s)	DDR5-5600 (89.6 GB/s) DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	6 GB	192 GB
Memory channels	1	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		5.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth		78.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Intel Core i9-14900KF
TDP	10 W	125 W
TDP (PL2)		253 W
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	Intel Core i9-14900KF
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, AVX2, AVX2+
Release date	Q3/2022	Q4/2023
Release price		564 $
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 i9-14900KF has received 4.2 stars (135 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A16 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i9-14900KF
24C / 32T · 3.20 - 6.00 GHz

★★★★★