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Apple A18 Pro vs Intel Core i5-4690K

Last updated: 2026-06-04

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 A18 Pro

Rank 2 - 41 %

Intel Core i5-4690K

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A18 Pro

Rank 2 - 46 %

Intel Core i5-4690K

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 4.04 GHz

3,409

4C / 4T · 3.90 GHz

1,383

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 4.04 GHz

8,492

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

3,864

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A18 Pro (6 GPU Cores)

3,589

Intel HD Graphics 4600

384

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

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A18 Pro	Intel Core i5-4690K
Family	Apple A series (27)	Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU group	Apple A18 (2)	Intel Core i 4000 (DC) (2)
Architecture	Donan	Devils Canyon S
Technology	3 nm	22 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Desktop
Socket		LGA 1150
Predecessor	Apple A17 Pro
Successor	Apple A19 Pro

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A18 Pro	Intel Core i5-4690K
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	2x Donan P-Core 0.70 - 4.04 GHz	4x 3.50 - 3.90 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Donan E-Core 0.74 - 2.30 GHz
L2-Cache	20.00 MB
L3-Cache	24.00 MB	6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✓

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A18 Pro	Intel Core i5-4690K
GPU name	Apple A18 Pro (6 GPU Cores)	Intel HD Graphics 4600
GPU frequency	0.39 - 1.68 GHz	0.35 - 1.20 GHz
CUs / Shader	24 / 768	20 / 160
Raytracing	✓	✗
Max. displays	1	3
Max. GPU Memory	8 GB	2 GB
Technology	3 nm	22 nm
Release date	Q3/2024	Q2/2013

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A18 Pro	Intel Core i5-4690K
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 38 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A18 Pro	Intel Core i5-4690K
Memory	LPDDR5X-7500 (60.0 GB/s)	DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	8 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 A18 Pro	Intel Core i5-4690K
TDP	12 W	88 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A18 Pro	Intel Core i5-4690K
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	iOS	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	Armv9-A (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions		SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q3/2024	Q2/2014
Release price		245 $
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple A18 Pro is 4.1 stars (508 ratings), while Intel Core i5-4690K has received 4.0 stars (29 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A18 Pro
6C / 6T · 0.70 - 4.04 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i5-4690K
4C / 4T · 3.50 - 3.90 GHz

★★★★★