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Intel Core i7-8700K vs Apple A12X Bionic

Last updated: 2026-06-05

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 i7-8700K

Rank 2 - 88 %

Apple A12X Bionic

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-8700K

Rank 2 - 68 %

Apple A12X Bionic

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 12T · 4.70 GHz

1,209 pts

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

991 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 12T · 4.30 GHz

8,960 pts

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,539 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 12T · 4.70 GHz

1,486

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,341

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 12T · 4.30 GHz

6,750

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,745

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

6C / 12T · 4.70 GHz

1,242

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,124

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

6C / 12T · 4.30 GHz

6,693

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,718

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel UHD Graphics 630

461

Apple A12X

1,008

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

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

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-8700K	Apple A12X Bionic
Family	Intel Core i7 (300)	Apple A series (27)
CPU group	Intel Core i 8000 (20)	Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)
Architecture	Coffee Lake S	A12
Technology	14 nm	7 nm
Segment	Desktop	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket	LGA 1151-2
Predecessor	Intel Core i7-7700K	Apple A10X Fusion
Successor	Intel Core i7-9700K

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i7-8700K	Apple A12X Bionic
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 12	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	6x 3.70 - 4.70 GHz	4x Vortex 2.49 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		4x Tempest 1.59 GHz
L2-Cache		8.00 MB
L3-Cache	12.00 MB
Overclocking	✓	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i7-8700K	Apple A12X Bionic
GPU name	Intel UHD Graphics 630	Apple A12X
GPU frequency	0.35 - 1.20 GHz	1.13 GHz
CUs / Shader	24 / 192	28 / 448
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	1
Max. GPU Memory	64 GB	6 GB
Technology	14 nm	7 nm
Release date	Q4/2017	Q3/2018

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-8700K	Apple A12X Bionic
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i7-8700K	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 i7-8700K	Apple A12X Bionic
TDP	95 W	15 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i7-8700K	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	Q4/2017	Q3/2018
Release price	370 $
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i7-8700K is 4.4 stars (105 ratings), while Apple A12X Bionic has received 4.2 stars (81 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i7-8700K
6C / 12T · 3.70 - 4.70 GHz

★★★★★

Apple A12X Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★