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Intel Core i5-1038NG7 vs Apple A12 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 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-1038NG7

Rank 2 - 97 %

Apple A12 Bionic

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-1038NG7

Rank 2 - 56 %

Apple A12 Bionic

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

1,329

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

1,286

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.40 GHz

4,439

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

2,353

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

4C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

1,150

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

1,116

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

4C / 8T · 3.40 GHz

4,236

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

2,731

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7

1,075

Apple A12

576

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-1038NG7	Apple A12 Bionic
Family	Intel Core i5 (336)	Apple A series (27)
CPU group	Intel Core i 1000G/10000U (19)	Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)
Architecture	Ice Lake U	A12
Technology	10 nm	7 nm
Segment	Notebook	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket	BGA 1344
Predecessor		Apple A11 Bionic
Successor		Apple A13 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i5-1038NG7	Apple A12 Bionic
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 8	6 / 6
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x 2.00 - 3.80 GHz	2x Vortex 2.49 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		4x Tempest 1.59 GHz
L2-Cache		8.00 MB
L3-Cache	6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i5-1038NG7	Apple A12 Bionic
GPU name	Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7	Apple A12
GPU frequency	0.30 - 1.05 GHz	1.13 GHz
CUs / Shader	64 / 512	16 / 256
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	1
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	4 GB
Technology	14 nm	7 nm
Release date	Q3/2019	Q3/2018

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-1038NG7	Apple A12 Bionic
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i5-1038NG7	Apple A12 Bionic
Memory	LPDDR4-3733 (59.6 GB/s) DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory	64 GB	4 GB
Memory channels	2	1
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i5-1038NG7	Apple A12 Bionic
TDP	28 W	6 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i5-1038NG7	Apple A12 Bionic
Chip design	Monolithic	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓	✗
Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	iOS
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q2/2020	Q3/2018
Release price	320 $
Documents

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i5-1038NG7 is 4.0 stars (11 ratings), while Apple A12 Bionic has received 3.4 stars (106 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i5-1038NG7
4C / 8T · 2.00 - 3.80 GHz

★★★★★

Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★