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Intel Core i9-12900TE 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 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i9-12900TE

Rank 2 - 95 %

Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i9-12900TE

Rank 2 - 40 %

Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

16C / 24T · 4.80 GHz

2,481

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

2,370

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

16C / 24T · 3.00 GHz

12,411

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

5,726

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

16C / 24T · 4.80 GHz

1,861

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

1,745

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

16C / 24T · 3.00 GHz

13,738

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

4,777

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel UHD Graphics 770

794

Apple A15 (4 GPU Cores)

1,370

More benchmarks

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

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i9-12900TE	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
Family	Intel Core i9 (81)	Apple A series (27)
CPU group	Intel Core i 12000 (34)	Apple A15 (2)
Architecture	Alder Lake S	A15
Technology	10 nm	5 nm
Segment	Desktop	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket	LGA 1700
Predecessor
Successor	Intel Core i9-13900TE	Apple A16 Bionic (5-CPU 4-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i9-12900TE	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	16 / 24	6 / 6
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	8x Golden Cove 1.10 - 4.80 GHz	2x Avalanche 3.23 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	8x Gracemont 1.00 - 3.60 GHz	4x Blizzard 2.02 GHz
L2-Cache	14.00 MB	16.00 MB
L3-Cache	30.00 MB	32.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i9-12900TE	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
GPU name	Intel UHD Graphics 770	Apple A15 (4 GPU Cores)
GPU frequency	0.30 - 1.55 GHz	1.34 GHz
CUs / Shader	32 / 256	16 / 512
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	64 GB	6 GB
Technology	10 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q4/2021	Q3/2021

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i9-12900TE	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 i9-12900TE	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
Memory	DDR5-4800 (76.8 GB/s) DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory	128 GB	6 GB
Memory channels	2	1
ECC	Yes	No
PCIe	5.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth	78.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i9-12900TE	Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
TDP	35 W	10 W
TDP (PL2)	106 W
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i9-12900TE	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, AVX2+
Release date	Q1/2022	Q3/2021
Release price	494 $
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i9-12900TE is 0 stars (0 ratings), while Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) has received 4.4 stars (99 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i9-12900TE
16C / 24T · 1.10 - 4.80 GHz

★★★★★

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

★★★★★