Intel Core i5-10400 vs Apple A10 Fusion

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Intel Core i5-10400 CPU1 vs CPU2 Apple A10 Fusion
Intel Core i5-10400 Apple A10 Fusion

CPU comparison

Intel Core i5-10400 or Apple A10 Fusion - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results.

The Intel Core i5-10400 has 6 cores with 12 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.30 GHz. Up to 128 GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The Intel Core i5-10400 was released in Q2/2020.

The Apple A10 Fusion has 4 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.34 GHz. The CPU supports up to 3 GB of memory in 1 memory channels. The Apple A10 Fusion was released in Q3/2016.
Intel Core i5 (331) Family Apple A series (22)
Intel Core i 10000 (43) CPU group Apple A10/A10X (2)
10 Generation 10
Comet Lake S Architecture A10
Desktop / Server Segment Mobile
Intel Core i5-9400 Predecessor Apple A9
Intel Core i5-11400 Successor Apple A11 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i5-10400 has 6 CPU cores and can calculate 12 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i5-10400 is 2.90 GHz (4.30 GHz) while the Apple A10 Fusion has 4 CPU cores and 4 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the Apple A10 Fusion is at 2.34 GHz.

Intel Core i5-10400 Characteristic Apple A10 Fusion
6 Cores 4
12 Threads 4
normal Core architecture hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Yes Hyperthreading No
No Overclocking ? No
2.90 GHz (4.30 GHz) A-Core 2.34 GHz
2x Hurricane
-- B-Core 1.09 GHz
2x Zephyr

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

Intel Core i5-10400 Characteristic Apple A10 Fusion
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

The Intel Core i5-10400 or Apple A10 Fusion has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU Apple A10
0.35 GHz GPU frequency 0.90 GHz
1.20 GHz GPU (Turbo) --
9.5 GPU Generation 7
14 nm Technology 16 nm
3 Max. displays 1
24 Compute units 24
192 Shader 192
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
64 GB Max. GPU Memory 4 GB
12 DirectX Version --

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU Apple A10
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) Decode
Decode / Encode Codec h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec VP9 Decode
Decode / Encode Codec VP8 Decode
No Codec AV1 No
Decode / Encode Codec AVC Decode
Decode Codec VC-1 Decode
Decode / Encode Codec JPEG Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The Intel Core i5-10400 can use up to 128 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 42.7 GB/s. The Apple A10 Fusion supports up to 3 GB of memory in 1 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 25.6 GB/s.

Intel Core i5-10400 Characteristic Apple A10 Fusion
DDR4-2666 Memory LPDDR4-3200
128 GB Max. Memory 3 GB
2 (Dual Channel) Memory channels 1 (Single Channel)
42.7 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 25.6 GB/s
No ECC No
-- L2 Cache 3.00 MB
12.00 MB L3 Cache 4.00 MB
3.0 PCIe version --
16 PCIe lanes --
15.8 GB/s PCIe Bandwidth --

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the Intel Core i5-10400 is 65 W, while the Apple A10 Fusion has a TDP of 5 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.

Intel Core i5-10400 Characteristic Apple A10 Fusion
65 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 5 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down --
100 °C Tjunction max. --

Technical details

The Intel Core i5-10400 is manufactured in 14 nm and has 12.00 MB cache. The Apple A10 Fusion is manufactured in 10 nm and has a 7.00 MB cache.

Intel Core i5-10400 Characteristic Apple A10 Fusion
14 nm Technology 10 nm
Monolithic Chip design Chiplet
x86-64 (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) Armv8-A (64 bit)
SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 ISA extensions --
LGA 1200 Socket --
VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d Virtualization None
Yes AES-NI No
Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux Operating systems iOS
Q2/2020 Release date Q3/2016
182 $ Release price --
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks
Intel Core i5-10400 (100%)
Apple A10 Fusion (65%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks
Intel Core i5-10400 (100%)
Apple A10 Fusion (22%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Core i5-10400 Intel Core i5-10400
6C 12T @ 4.30 GHz
1120 (100%)
Apple A10 Fusion Apple A10 Fusion
4C 4T @ 2.34 GHz
776 (69%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Core i5-10400 Intel Core i5-10400
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz
5870 (100%)
Apple A10 Fusion Apple A10 Fusion
4C 4T @ 2.34 GHz
1422 (24%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
Intel Core i5-10400 Intel Core i5-10400
6C 12T @ 4.30 GHz
1433 (100%)
Apple A10 Fusion Apple A10 Fusion
4C 4T @ 2.34 GHz
853 (60%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
Intel Core i5-10400 Intel Core i5-10400
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz
6261 (100%)
Apple A10 Fusion Apple A10 Fusion
4C 4T @ 2.34 GHz
1207 (19%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
Intel Core i5-10400 Intel Core i5-10400
Intel UHD Graphics 630 @ 1.20 GHz
461 (100%)
Apple A10 Fusion Apple A10 Fusion
Apple A10 @ 0.90 GHz
346 (75%)

Cinebench 2024 (Single-Core)

The Cinebench 2024 benchmark is based on the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxon's 3D program Cinema 4D. The benchmark runs are each 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.
Intel Core i5-10400 Intel Core i5-10400
6C 12T @ 4.30 GHz
68 (100%)
Apple A10 Fusion Apple A10 Fusion
4C 4T @ 2.34 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench 2024 (Multi-Core)

The Multi-Core test of the Cinebench 2024 benchmark uses all cpu cores to render using the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxons Cinema 4D. The benchmark run is 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.
Intel Core i5-10400 Intel Core i5-10400
6C 12T @ 4.30 GHz
443 (100%)
Apple A10 Fusion Apple A10 Fusion
4C 4T @ 2.34 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Core i5-10400 Intel Core i5-10400
6C 12T @ 4.30 GHz
1120 (100%)
Apple A10 Fusion Apple A10 Fusion
4C 4T @ 2.34 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Core i5-10400 Intel Core i5-10400
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz
8164 (100%)
Apple A10 Fusion Apple A10 Fusion
4C 4T @ 2.34 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Core i5-10400 Intel Core i5-10400
6C 12T @ 4.30 GHz
450 (100%)
Apple A10 Fusion Apple A10 Fusion
4C 4T @ 2.34 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Core i5-10400 Intel Core i5-10400
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz
3197 (100%)
Apple A10 Fusion Apple A10 Fusion
4C 4T @ 2.34 GHz
0 (0%)

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark

The AnTuTu 8 Benchmark measures the performance of a SoC. AnTuTu benchmarks the CPU, GPU, Memory as well as the UX (User Experience) by simulating browser and app usage. AnTuTu can benchmark any ARM CPU that runs under Android or iOS. Devices may not be directly compareable if the benchmark has been performed under different operating systems.

In the AnTuTu 8 benchmark, the single-core performance of a processor is only slightly weighted. The evaluation consists of the multi-core performance of the processor, the speed of the RAM and the performance of the internal graphics.
Intel Core i5-10400 Intel Core i5-10400
6C 12T @ 2.90 GHz
0 (0%)
Apple A10 Fusion Apple A10 Fusion
4C 4T @ 2.34 GHz
227804 (100%)

Blender 3.1 Benchmark

In the Blender Benchmark 3.1, the scenes "monster", "junkshop" and "classroom" are rendered and the time required by the system is measured. In our benchmark we test the CPU and not the graphics card. Blender 3.1 was presented as a standalone version in March 2022.
Intel Core i5-10400 Intel Core i5-10400
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz
110 (100%)
Apple A10 Fusion Apple A10 Fusion
4C 4T @ 2.34 GHz
0 (0%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
Intel Core i5-10400 Intel Core i5-10400
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz
12267 (100%)
Apple A10 Fusion Apple A10 Fusion
4C 4T @ 2.34 GHz
0 (0%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Single-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
Intel Core i5-10400 Intel Core i5-10400
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz
462 (100%)
Apple A10 Fusion Apple A10 Fusion
4C 4T @ 2.34 GHz
0 (0%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
Intel Core i5-10400 Intel Core i5-10400
6C 12T @ 2.90 GHz
3551 (100%)
Apple A10 Fusion Apple A10 Fusion
4C 4T @ 2.34 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Core i5-10400 Intel Core i5-10400
6C 12T @ 4.30 GHz
190 (100%)
Apple A10 Fusion Apple A10 Fusion
4C 4T @ 2.34 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Core i5-10400 Intel Core i5-10400
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz
1341 (100%)
Apple A10 Fusion Apple A10 Fusion
4C 4T @ 2.34 GHz
0 (0%)

Devices using this processor

Intel Core i5-10400 Apple A10 Fusion
Unknown Apple iPhone 7
Apple iPhone 7 Plus
Apple iPad (6. Gen)

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