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Intel Core i3-4000M vs Apple A12 Bionic

Last updated: 2026-03-01

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 53 %

Intel Core i3-4000M

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A12 Bionic

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 53 %

Intel Core i3-4000M

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A12 Bionic

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

2C / 4T · 2.40 GHz

735

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

1,286

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 4T · 2.40 GHz

1,542

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

2,353

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

2C / 4T · 2.40 GHz

540

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

1,116

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

2C / 4T · 2.40 GHz

1,255

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

2,731

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics 4600

368

Apple A12

576

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

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 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

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i3-4000M	Apple A12 Bionic
Family	Intel Core i3 (205)	Apple A series (27)
CPU group	Intel Core i 4000M/4000H (38)	Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)
Architecture	Haswell H	A12
Technology	22 nm	7 nm
Segment	Notebook	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket	PGA 946
Predecessor		Apple A11 Bionic
Successor		Apple A13 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i3-4000M	Apple A12 Bionic
CPU Cores / Threads	2 / 4	6 / 6
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x 2.40 GHz	2x Vortex 2.49 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		4x Tempest 1.59 GHz
L2-Cache		8.00 MB
L3-Cache	3.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i3-4000M	Apple A12 Bionic
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 4600	Apple A12
GPU frequency	0.20 - 1.15 GHz	1.13 GHz
CUs / Shader	20 / 160	16 / 256
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	1
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB	4 GB
Technology	22 nm	7 nm
Release date	Q2/2013	Q3/2018

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i3-4000M	Apple A12 Bionic
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i3-4000M	Apple A12 Bionic
Memory	DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory	32 GB	4 GB
Memory channels	2	1
ECC	No	No
PCIe	2.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	8.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i3-4000M	Apple A12 Bionic
TDP	37 W	6 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i3-4000M	Apple A12 Bionic
Chip design	Monolithic	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓	✗
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	iOS
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q4/2013	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 Core i3-4000M is 3.0 stars (14 ratings), while Apple A12 Bionic has received 3.4 stars (106 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i3-4000M
2C / 4T · 2.40 GHz

★★★★★

Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★