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Intel Pentium B970 vs Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
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Benchmarks
Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks
Single-core performance
Multi-core performance
Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance
Intel Pentium B970
17 %
2C / 2T · 2.30 GHz
Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
100 %
6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance
Intel Pentium B970
12 %
2C / 2T · 2.30 GHz
Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
100 %
6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance
Intel Pentium B970
25 %
2C / 2T · 2.30 GHz
Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
100 %
6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance
Intel Pentium B970
18 %
2C / 2T · 2.30 GHz
Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
100 %
6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1)
Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
100 %
Apple A15 (4 GPU Cores)
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Specifications
At a glance
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Wischen
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Intel Pentium B970 | Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| Family | Intel Pentium (150) | Apple A series (27) |
| CPU group | Intel Pentium 900 (10) | Apple A15 (2) |
| Architecture | Sandy Bridge U | A15 |
| Technology | 32 nm | 5 nm |
| Segment | Notebook | Smartphone / Tablet |
| Socket | PGA 988 | |
| Predecessor | ||
| Successor | Apple A16 Bionic (5-CPU 4-GPU) |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
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Wischen
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Intel Pentium B970 | Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| CPU Cores / Threads | 2 / 2 | 6 / 6 |
| Hyperthreading / SMT | ✗ | ✗ |
| Core architecture | normal | hybrid (big.LITTLE) |
| Core Cluster 1: | 2x 2.30 GHz |
2x Avalanche 3.23 GHz |
| Core Cluster 2: | 4x Blizzard 2.02 GHz |
|
| L2-Cache | 16.00 MB | |
| L3-Cache | 2.00 MB | 32.00 MB |
| Overclocking | ✗ | ✗ |
Integrated graphics (iGPU)
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Wischen
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Intel Pentium B970 | Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| GPU name | Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1) | Apple A15 (4 GPU Cores) |
| GPU frequency | 0.65 - 1.15 GHz | 1.34 GHz |
| CUs / Shader | 6 / 48 | 16 / 512 |
| Raytracing | ✗ | ✗ |
| Max. displays | 2 | 3 |
| Max. GPU Memory | 2 GB | 6 GB |
| Technology | 32 nm | 5 nm |
| Release date | Q2/2011 | Q3/2021 |
NPU AI performance
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Wischen
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Intel Pentium B970 | Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| AI hardware | Apple Neural Engine | |
| AI specifications | 16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS | |
| NPU + CPU + iGPU |
Memory & PCIe
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Wischen
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Intel Pentium B970 | Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| Memory | DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s) DDR3-1066 (17.1 GB/s) | LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s) |
| Max. Memory | 16 GB | 6 GB |
| Memory channels | 2 | 1 |
| ECC | No | No |
| PCIe | 2.0 x 16 | |
| PCIe Bandwidth | 8.0 GB/s |
Thermal Management
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Wischen
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Intel Pentium B970 | Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| TDP | 35 W | 10 W |
| TDP (PL2) | ||
| TDP up | ||
| TDP down | ||
| T. junction max. | 85 °C |
Technical details
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Wischen
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Intel Pentium B970 | Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| Chip design | Monolithic | Chiplet |
| AES-NI | ✓ | ✗ |
| Operating systems | Windows 10, Linux | iOS |
| Instruction set | x86-64 (64 bit) | Armv8-A (64 bit) |
| ISA extensions | SSE4.1, SSE4.2 | |
| Release date | Q1/2012 | Q3/2021 |
| Release price | ||
| Documents | Technical data sheet |
User Reviews
Your rating
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Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
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Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz
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Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
6C / 6T · 0.00 GHz
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Intel Pentium B970
2C / 2T · 0.00 GHz
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