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Intel Core i5-2520M vs Apple A12Z Bionic

Last updated: 2026-05-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 47 %

Intel Core i5-2520M

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A12Z Bionic

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 26 %

Intel Core i5-2520M

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A12Z Bionic

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

2C / 4T · 3.20 GHz

549

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,351

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 4T · 3.20 GHz

1,162

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,798

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

2C / 4T · 3.20 GHz

596

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,124

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

2C / 4T · 3.20 GHz

1,339

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,718

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics 3000

250

Apple A12Z

1,152

More benchmarks

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

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 entries

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2520M	Apple A12Z Bionic
Family	Intel Core i5 (336)	Apple A series (27)
CPU group	Intel Core i 2000M (46)	Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)
Architecture	Sandy Bridge H	A12
Technology	32 nm	7 nm
Segment	Notebook	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket	PPGA 988
Predecessor		Apple A10X Fusion
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2520M	Apple A12Z Bionic
CPU Cores / Threads	2 / 4	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x 2.50 - 3.20 GHz	4x 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 i5-2520M	Apple A12Z Bionic
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 3000	Apple A12Z
GPU frequency	0.65 - 1.30 GHz	1.13 GHz
CUs / Shader	12 / 96	32 / 512
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	1
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB	6 GB
Technology	32 nm	7 nm
Release date	Q1/2011	Q1/2020

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2520M	Apple A12Z Bionic
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2520M	Apple A12Z Bionic
Memory	DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	16 GB	6 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	2.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	8.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2520M	Apple A12Z Bionic
TDP	35 W	15 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2520M	Apple A12Z 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, AVX
Release date	Q1/2011	Q1/2020
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 i5-2520M is 3.9 stars (25 ratings), while Apple A12Z Bionic has received 4.2 stars (85 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i5-2520M
2C / 4T · 2.50 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★

Apple A12Z Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★