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Intel Pentium Silver N6000 vs Apple A12X Bionic

Last updated: 2026-06-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 59 %

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A12X Bionic

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 34 %

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A12X Bionic

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

675 pts

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

991 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

1,832 pts

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,539 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

571

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,341

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

1,238

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,745

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

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

729

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,124

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

4C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

1,875

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,718

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel UHD Graphics 32 EUs (Jasper Lake)

456

Apple A12X

1,008

More benchmarks

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

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Pentium Silver N6000	Apple A12X Bionic
Family	Intel Pentium (150)	Apple A series (27)
CPU group	Intel Pentium N6000 (2)	Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)
Architecture	Jasper Lake	A12
Technology	10 nm	7 nm
Segment	Notebook	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket	BGA 1338
Predecessor	Intel Pentium Silver N5000	Apple A10X Fusion
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Pentium Silver N6000	Apple A12X Bionic
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x Tremont 1.10 - 3.30 GHz	4x Vortex 2.49 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		4x Tempest 1.59 GHz
L2-Cache	1.50 MB	8.00 MB
L3-Cache	4.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Pentium Silver N6000	Apple A12X Bionic
GPU name	Intel UHD Graphics 32 EUs (Jasper Lake)	Apple A12X
GPU frequency	0.35 - 0.85 GHz	1.13 GHz
CUs / Shader	32 / 256	28 / 448
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	1
Max. GPU Memory	8 GB	6 GB
Technology	10 nm	7 nm
Release date	Q1/2021	Q3/2018

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Pentium Silver N6000	Apple A12X Bionic
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Pentium Silver N6000	Apple A12X Bionic
Memory	DDR4-2933 (46.9 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	16 GB	6 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 8
PCIe Bandwidth	7.9 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Pentium Silver N6000	Apple A12X Bionic
TDP	6 W	15 W
TDP (PL2)	20 W
TDP up
TDP down	4.8 W
T. junction max.	105 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Pentium Silver N6000	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
Release date	Q1/2021	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 Pentium Silver N6000 is 3.1 stars (59 ratings), while Apple A12X Bionic has received 4.2 stars (81 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Pentium Silver N6000
4C / 4T · 1.10 - 3.30 GHz

★★★★★

Apple A12X Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★