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Intel Atom Z3740 vs Apple A12X Bionic

Last updated: 2026-06-02

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 14 %

Intel Atom Z3740

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A12X Bionic

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 9 %

Intel Atom Z3740

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A12X Bionic

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 1.86 GHz

142

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,341

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 1.33 GHz

300

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,745

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

4C / 4T · 1.86 GHz

187

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,124

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

4C / 4T · 1.33 GHz

665

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,718

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1)

Apple A12X

1,008

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 8 Benchmark
118 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Atom Z3740	Apple A12X Bionic
Family	Intel Atom (108)	Apple A series (27)
CPU group	Intel Atom Z3700 (16)	Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)
Architecture	Bay Trail	A12
Technology	22 nm	7 nm
Segment	Notebook	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket	BGA 1380
Predecessor		Apple A10X Fusion
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Atom Z3740	Apple A12X Bionic
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x 1.33 - 1.86 GHz	4x Vortex 2.49 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		4x Tempest 1.59 GHz
L2-Cache		8.00 MB
L3-Cache	2.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Atom Z3740	Apple A12X Bionic
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1)	Apple A12X
GPU frequency	0.31 - 0.67 GHz	1.13 GHz
CUs / Shader	4 / 32	28 / 448
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	1
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB	6 GB
Technology	22 nm	7 nm
Release date	Q3/2013	Q3/2018

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Atom Z3740	Apple A12X Bionic
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Atom Z3740	Apple A12X Bionic
Memory	LPDDR3-1066 (17.1 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	4 GB	6 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Atom Z3740	Apple A12X Bionic
TDP	4 W	15 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	90 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Atom Z3740	Apple A12X Bionic
Chip design	Monolithic	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓	✗
Operating systems		iOS
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Release date	Q3/2013	Q3/2018
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Atom Z3740 is 1.5 stars (2 ratings), while Apple A12X Bionic has received 4.2 stars (81 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Atom Z3740
4C / 4T · 1.33 - 1.86 GHz

★★★★★

Apple A12X Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★