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Intel Core i5-8269U vs Apple A12X 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 2 - 96 %

Intel Core i5-8269U

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A12X Bionic

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 85 %

Intel Core i5-8269U

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A12X Bionic

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.20 GHz

1,281

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,341

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.40 GHz

4,405

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,745

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

4C / 8T · 4.20 GHz

1,078

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,124

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

4C / 8T · 3.40 GHz

4,122

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,718

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655

845

Apple A12X

1,008

More benchmarks

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

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

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-8269U	Apple A12X Bionic
Family	Intel Core i5 (336)	Apple A series (27)
CPU group	Intel Core i 8000U (8)	Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)
Architecture	Coffee Lake U	A12
Technology	14 nm	7 nm
Segment	Notebook	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket	BGA 1528
Predecessor		Apple A10X Fusion
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i5-8269U	Apple A12X Bionic
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 8	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x 2.60 - 4.20 GHz	4x 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 i5-8269U	Apple A12X Bionic
GPU name	Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655	Apple A12X
GPU frequency	0.30 - 1.10 GHz	1.13 GHz
CUs / Shader	48 / 384	28 / 448
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	1
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	6 GB
Technology	14 nm	7 nm
Release date	Q4/2017	Q3/2018

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-8269U	Apple A12X Bionic
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i5-8269U	Apple A12X Bionic
Memory	DDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	32 GB	6 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i5-8269U	Apple A12X Bionic
TDP	28 W	15 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i5-8269U	Apple A12X 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	Q2/2018	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 i5-8269U is 3.3 stars (3 ratings), while Apple A12X Bionic has received 4.2 stars (81 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i5-8269U
4C / 8T · 2.60 - 4.20 GHz

★★★★★

Apple A12X Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★