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Intel Core i7-8700B vs Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-06-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 64 %

Intel Core i7-8700B

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-8700B

Rank 2 - 88 %

Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 12T · 4.60 GHz

1,459

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

2,370

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 12T · 3.20 GHz

6,027

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

5,726

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

6C / 12T · 4.60 GHz

1,172

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

1,745

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

6C / 12T · 3.20 GHz

5,891

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

4,777

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel UHD Graphics 630

442

Apple A15 (4 GPU Cores)

1,370

More benchmarks

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

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

AnTuTu 10 Benchmark
25 entries

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-8700B	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
Family	Intel Core i7 (300)	Apple A series (27)
CPU group	Intel Core i 8000 (20)	Apple A15 (2)
Architecture	Coffee Lake S	A15
Technology	14 nm	5 nm
Segment	Desktop	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket	BGA 1440
Predecessor
Successor		Apple A16 Bionic (5-CPU 4-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i7-8700B	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 12	6 / 6
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	6x 3.20 - 4.60 GHz	2x Avalanche 3.23 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		4x Blizzard 2.02 GHz
L2-Cache		16.00 MB
L3-Cache	12.00 MB	32.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i7-8700B	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
GPU name	Intel UHD Graphics 630	Apple A15 (4 GPU Cores)
GPU frequency	0.35 - 1.15 GHz	1.34 GHz
CUs / Shader	24 / 192	16 / 512
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	64 GB	6 GB
Technology	14 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q4/2017	Q3/2021

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-8700B	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i7-8700B	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
Memory	DDR4-2666 (42.7 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory	64 GB	6 GB
Memory channels	2	1
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i7-8700B	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
TDP	65 W	10 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i7-8700B	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
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	Q3/2021
Release price	340 $
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i7-8700B is 4.8 stars (4 ratings), while Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) has received 4.4 stars (98 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i7-8700B
6C / 12T · 3.20 - 4.60 GHz

★★★★★

Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

★★★★★