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Intel Core i7-12700H vs Apple A5

Last updated: 2026-06-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-12700H

Rank 2 - 31 %

Apple A5

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-12700H

Rank 2 - 2 %

Apple A5

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

14C / 20T · 3.80 GHz

11,424

2C / 2T · 1.00 GHz

267

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

14C / 20T · 4.70 GHz

1,607

2C / 2T · 1.00 GHz

496

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96 (Alder Lake)

2,146

PowerVR SGX543MP2 (2 Cores)

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

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

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-12700H	Apple A5
Family	Intel Core i7 (300)	Apple A series (27)
CPU group	Intel Core i 12000H (23)	Apple A5/A5X (2)
Architecture	Alder Lake H	A5
Technology	10 nm	32 nm
Segment	Notebook	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket	BGA 1744
Predecessor
Successor	Intel Core i7-13700H	Apple A6

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i7-12700H	Apple A5
CPU Cores / Threads	14 / 20	2 / 2
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	6x Golden Cove 2.30 - 4.70 GHz	2x Cortex-A9 1.00 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	8x Gracemont 1.70 - 3.50 GHz
L2-Cache	11.50 MB	1.00 MB
L3-Cache	24.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i7-12700H	Apple A5
GPU name	Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96 (Alder Lake)	PowerVR SGX543MP2 (2 Cores)
GPU frequency	0.40 - 1.40 GHz	0.20 GHz
CUs / Shader	96 / 768	4 / 32
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	4	1
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB
Technology	10 nm	32 nm
Release date	Q1/2022	Q1/2012

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-12700H	Apple A5
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i7-12700H	Apple A5
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)	LPDDR2-800 (6.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	64 GB	1 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	4.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth	39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i7-12700H	Apple A5
TDP	45 W
TDP (PL2)	115 W
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i7-12700H	Apple A5
Chip design	Monolithic	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓	✗
Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	iOS
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv7-A (32 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX2+
Release date	Q1/2022	Q1/2011
Release price	457 $
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i7-12700H is 4.2 stars (185 ratings), while Apple A5 has received 3.7 stars (10 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i7-12700H
14C / 20T · 2.30 - 4.70 GHz

★★★★★

Apple A5
2C / 2T · 1.00 GHz

★★★★★