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Intel Core Ultra 9 288V vs Apple A12 Bionic

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 Ultra 9 288V

Rank 2 - 46 %

Apple A12 Bionic

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core Ultra 9 288V

Rank 2 - 21 %

Apple A12 Bionic

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 5.10 GHz

2,770

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

1,286

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.20 GHz

11,050

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

2,353

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel Arc 140V

6,560

Apple A12

576

AI performance (NPU)

8C / 8T · 2.20 GHz

48.0 TOPS

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

5.0 TOPS

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

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 9 288V	Apple A12 Bionic
Family	Intel Core Ultra 9 (12)	Apple A series (27)
CPU group	Intel Core Ultra 200V (9)	Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)
Architecture	Lunar Lake	A12
Technology	3 nm	7 nm
Segment	Notebook	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket	BGA 2833
Predecessor		Apple A11 Bionic
Successor		Apple A13 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 9 288V	Apple A12 Bionic
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	6 / 6
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x Lion Cove 2.20 - 5.10 GHz	2x Vortex 2.49 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Skymont 0 - 3.70 GHz	4x Tempest 1.59 GHz
L2-Cache	14.00 MB	8.00 MB
L3-Cache	12.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 9 288V	Apple A12 Bionic
GPU name	Intel Arc 140V	Apple A12
GPU frequency	0.60 - 2.05 GHz	1.13 GHz
CUs / Shader	64 / 1024	16 / 256
Raytracing	✓	✗
Max. displays	3	1
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	4 GB
Technology	5 nm	7 nm
Release date	Q3/2024	Q3/2018

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 9 288V	Apple A12 Bionic
AI hardware	Intel® AI Boost	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	Intel AI Boost NPU 4 @ 48 TOPS	8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU	120 TOPS

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 9 288V	Apple A12 Bionic
Memory	LPDDR5X-8533 (136.5 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory	32 GB	4 GB
Memory channels	2	1
ECC	No	No
PCIe	5.0 x 8
PCIe Bandwidth	31.5 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 9 288V	Apple A12 Bionic
TDP	30 W	6 W
TDP (PL2)	37 W
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	110 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 9 288V	Apple A12 Bionic
Chip design	Monolithic	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓	✗
Operating systems	Windows 11, Linux	iOS
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q3/2024	Q3/2018
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core Ultra 9 288V is 2.7 stars (154 ratings), while Apple A12 Bionic has received 3.4 stars (106 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core Ultra 9 288V
8C / 8T · 2.20 - 5.10 GHz

★★★★★

Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★