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Intel Core i5-9400F 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 - 99 %

Intel Core i5-9400F

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A12X Bionic

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-9400F

Rank 2 - 97 %

Apple A12X Bionic

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 4.10 GHz

1,005 pts

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

991 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.90 GHz

5,341 pts

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,539 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 4.10 GHz

1,346

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,341

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.90 GHz

5,164

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,745

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

6C / 6T · 4.10 GHz

1,085

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,124

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

6C / 6T · 3.90 GHz

4,722

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,718

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 8 Benchmark
118 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-9400F	Apple A12X Bionic
Family	Intel Core i5 (336)	Apple A series (27)
CPU group	Intel Core i 9000 (34)	Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)
Architecture	Coffee Lake S Refresh	A12
Technology	14 nm	7 nm
Segment	Desktop	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket	LGA 1151-2
Predecessor		Apple A10X Fusion
Successor	Intel Core i5-10400F

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i5-9400F	Apple A12X Bionic
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	6x 2.90 - 4.10 GHz	4x Vortex 2.49 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		4x Tempest 1.59 GHz
L2-Cache		8.00 MB
L3-Cache	9.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i5-9400F	Apple A12X Bionic
GPU name	no iGPU	Apple A12X
GPU frequency		1.13 GHz
CUs / Shader	/	28 / 448
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays		1
Max. GPU Memory		6 GB
Technology		7 nm
Release date		Q3/2018

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-9400F	Apple A12X Bionic
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i5-9400F	Apple A12X Bionic
Memory	DDR4-2666 (42.7 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	128 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 i5-9400F	Apple A12X Bionic
TDP	65 W	15 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i5-9400F	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	Q1/2019	Q3/2018
Release price	157 $
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i5-9400F is 3.6 stars (65 ratings), while Apple A12X Bionic has received 4.2 stars (81 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i5-9400F
6C / 6T · 2.90 - 4.10 GHz

★★★★★

Apple A12X Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★