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Intel Core i5-1230U vs Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
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Benchmarks
Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks
Single-core performance
Multi-core performance
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance
Intel Core i5-1230U
85 %
10C / 12T · 4.40 GHz
Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
100 %
6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
Intel Core i5-1230U
81 %
Intel Iris Xe Graphics 80 (Alder Lake)
Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
100 %
Apple A15 (4 GPU Cores)
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Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries
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FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries
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3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries
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AnTuTu 10 Benchmark
25 entries
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AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 entries
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AI performance (NPU)
218 entries
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Specifications
At a glance
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Wischen
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Intel Core i5-1230U | Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| Family | Intel Core i5 (336) | Apple A series (27) |
| CPU group | Intel Core i 1200P/1200U (21) | Apple A15 (2) |
| Architecture | Alder Lake U | A15 |
| Technology | 10 nm | 5 nm |
| Segment | Notebook | Smartphone / Tablet |
| Socket | BGA 1744 | |
| Predecessor | ||
| Successor | Apple A16 Bionic (5-CPU 4-GPU) |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
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Intel Core i5-1230U | Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| CPU Cores / Threads | 10 / 12 | 6 / 6 |
| Hyperthreading / SMT | ✓ | ✗ |
| Core architecture | hybrid (big.LITTLE) | hybrid (big.LITTLE) |
| Core Cluster 1: | 2x Golden Cove 1.00 - 4.40 GHz |
2x Avalanche 3.23 GHz |
| Core Cluster 2: | 8x Gracemont 0.70 - 3.30 GHz |
4x Blizzard 2.02 GHz |
| L2-Cache | 6.50 MB | 16.00 MB |
| L3-Cache | 12.00 MB | 32.00 MB |
| Overclocking | ✗ | ✗ |
Integrated graphics (iGPU)
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Intel Core i5-1230U | Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| GPU name | Intel Iris Xe Graphics 80 (Alder Lake) | Apple A15 (4 GPU Cores) |
| GPU frequency | 0.25 - 0.90 GHz | 1.34 GHz |
| CUs / Shader | 80 / 640 | 16 / 512 |
| Raytracing | ✗ | ✗ |
| Max. displays | 4 | 3 |
| Max. GPU Memory | 32 GB | 6 GB |
| Technology | 10 nm | 5 nm |
| Release date | Q1/2022 | Q3/2021 |
NPU AI performance
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Intel Core i5-1230U | Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| AI hardware | Apple Neural Engine | |
| AI specifications | 16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS | |
| NPU + CPU + iGPU |
Memory & PCIe
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Intel Core i5-1230U | Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| Memory | LPDDR5-5200 (83.2 GB/s) DDR5-4800 (76.8 GB/s) LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s) DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s) | LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s) |
| Max. Memory | 64 GB | 6 GB |
| Memory channels | 2 | 1 |
| ECC | No | No |
| PCIe | 4.0 x 28 | |
| PCIe Bandwidth | 55.1 GB/s |
Thermal Management
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Intel Core i5-1230U | Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| TDP | 9 W | 10 W |
| TDP (PL2) | 29 W | |
| TDP up | ||
| TDP down | ||
| T. junction max. | 100 °C |
Technical details
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Wischen
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Intel Core i5-1230U | Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Q1/2022 | Q3/2021 |
| Release price | ||
| Documents |
User Reviews
Your rating
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