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Intel Core i5-8500 vs Apple A12 Bionic

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core i5-8500
Rank 2 - 98 %
Apple A12 Bionic
Multi-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core i5-8500
Rank 2 - 51 %
Apple A12 Bionic
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

Intel Core i5-8500
6C / 6T · 4.10 GHz
1,364
Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
1,286
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Intel Core i5-8500
6C / 6T · 3.70 GHz
5,297
Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
2,353
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

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

Intel Core i5-8500
6C / 6T · 4.10 GHz
1,086
Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
1,116
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

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

Intel Core i5-8500
6C / 6T · 3.70 GHz
4,761
Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
2,731
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel Core i5-8500
Intel UHD Graphics 630
442
Apple A12 Bionic
Apple A12
576

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Intel Core i5-8500Apple A12 Bionic
FamilyIntel Core i5 (336)Apple A series (27)
CPU groupIntel Core i 8000 (20)Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)
ArchitectureCoffee Lake SA12
Technology14 nm7 nm
SegmentDesktopSmartphone / Tablet
SocketLGA 1151-2
PredecessorIntel Core i5-7500Apple A11 Bionic
SuccessorIntel Core i5-9500Apple A13 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen
Intel Core i5-8500Apple A12 Bionic
CPU Cores / Threads6 / 66 / 6
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturenormalhybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1: 6x
3.00 - 4.10 GHz
2x Vortex
2.49 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 4x Tempest
1.59 GHz
L2-Cache8.00 MB
L3-Cache9.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Intel Core i5-8500Apple A12 Bionic
GPU nameIntel UHD Graphics 630Apple A12
GPU frequency0.35 - 1.15 GHz1.13 GHz
CUs / Shader24 / 19216 / 256
Raytracing
Max. displays31
Max. GPU Memory64 GB4 GB
Technology14 nm7 nm
Release dateQ4/2017Q3/2018

NPU AI performance

Wischen
Intel Core i5-8500Apple A12 Bionic
AI hardwareApple Neural Engine
AI specifications8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen
Intel Core i5-8500Apple A12 Bionic
MemoryDDR4-2666 (42.7 GB/s)
LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory128 GB4 GB
Memory channels21
ECCNoNo
PCIe3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen
Intel Core i5-8500Apple A12 Bionic
TDP65 W6 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen
Intel Core i5-8500Apple A12 Bionic
Chip designMonolithicChiplet
AES-NI
Operating systemsWindows 10, Windows 11, LinuxiOS
Instruction setx86-64 (64 bit)Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensionsSSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release dateQ1/2018Q3/2018
Release price190 $
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

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Intel Core i5-8500
Intel Core i5-8500
6C / 6T · 3.00 - 4.10 GHz
Apple A12 Bionic
Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

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