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Intel Core i7-10700 vs Apple A15 Bionic vs Apple A12 Bionic

Intel Core i7-10700

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The Intel Core i7-10700 is a high-end desktop CPU based on the Comet Lake architecture. The CPU offers 8 cores and 16 threads clocked at 2.9 - 4.8 GHz. All cores can run at up to 4.6 GHz.

Compared to the older Core i7-9700, the 10700 now enables HyperThreading and therefore in some applications a nice performance boost. The single core performance is quite similar.

The chip is manufactured on 14nm++ process at Intel. The TDP is rated at 65 Watt (PL1) but the PL2 is set to 224 Watt for short term boosts (up to 28 seconds).

Apple A15 Bionic

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The Apple A15 Bionic is a System on a Chip (SoC) from Apple that is found in the iPhone 13 and iPad Mini (2021) models. It was announced late 2021 and offers 6 cores divided in 2 performance cores and four power efficiency cores. The CPU performance increases only slightly compared to the A14, but GPU (in the higher end models) offers higher gains.

The chip is manufactured in 5nm and integrates 15.8 billion transistors (compared to the 11.8 of the A14).

Apple A12 Bionic

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The Apple A12 Bionic is a System on a Chip (SoC) from Apple that is found in the iPhone Xs and Xr. It was announced late 2018 and offers 6 cores divided in 2 performance cores and four power efficiency cores. Compared to the previous A11 Bionic, the A12 should offer a 15% improved CPU performance for the performance cores and a 50% lower power consumption for the efficiency cores (both according to Apple).

The chip also includes a new GPU that is advertised as 50% faster, the M12 Motion co-processor and a Neural Engine with 8 cores for up to 5 trillion operations per second.

With 6.9 billion transistors, the A12 Bionic is a big chip especially compared to the Snapdragon 835 (3 Billion) or a Skylake desktop quad-core Soc (1.75 Billion). Compared to the A11, the A12 integrates 60% more transistors.

ModelIntel Core i7-10700Apple A15 BionicApple A12 Bionic
CodenameComet Lake
SeriesIntel Comet LakeApple Apple A-SeriesApple Apple A-Series
Series: Apple A-Series
Intel Core i9-10900K3.7 - 5.3 GHz10 / 20 cores20 MB L3
Intel Core i7-10700K3.8 - 5.1 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
Intel Core i7-10700 « 2.9 - 4.8 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
Intel Core i5-10600K4.1 - 4.8 GHz6 / 12 cores12 MB L3
Intel Core i5-10400F2.9 - 4.3 GHz6 / 12 cores12 MB L3
Intel Core i3-10100F3.6 - 4.3 GHz4 / 8 cores6 MB L3
Apple A18 Pro - 4 GHz6 / 6 cores
Apple A18 - 3.8 GHz6 / 6 cores
Apple A15 Bionic « 2.02 - 3.23 GHz6 / 6 cores32 MB L3
Apple A12 Bionic - 2.49 GHz6 / 6 cores
Apple A6x1.4 GHzcores
Apple A61 GHzcores
Apple A18 Pro - 4 GHz6 / 6 cores
Apple A18 - 3.8 GHz6 / 6 cores
Apple A15 Bionic2.02 - 3.23 GHz6 / 6 cores32 MB L3
Apple A12 Bionic « - 2.49 GHz6 / 6 cores
Apple A6x1.4 GHzcores
Apple A61 GHzcores
Clock2900 - 4800 MHz2020 - 3230 MHz <=2490 MHz
L1 Cache512 KB256 KB
L2 Cache2 MB16 MB8 MB
L3 Cache16 MB32 MB
Cores / Threads8 / 166 / 66 / 6
TDP65 Watt
Technology14 nm5 nm7 nm
max. Temp.100 °C
SocketLGA1200
FeaturesDDR4-2933 RAM, PCIe 3, 8 GT/s bus, vPro, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AES, AVX, AVX2, FMA3ARMv8 Instruction Set, Machine Learning Controller, 16-Core Neural Engine, Secure Enclave, Advanced Image Signal ProcessorARMv8 Instruction Set
iGPUIntel UHD Graphics 630 (350 - 1200 MHz)Apple A15 GPU 5-CoreApple A12 Bionic GPU
Architecturex86ARMARM
$340 U.S.
Announced
Manufacturerark.intel.com
Transistors15800 Million6900 Million

Benchmarks

Cinebench R23 - Cinebench R23 Multi Core
8532 Points (8%)
Cinebench R23 - Cinebench R23 Single Core
1234 Points (52%)
Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64 Bit
1455 Points (9%)
Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64 Bit
196 Points (54%)
Cinebench R11.5 - Cinebench R11.5 CPU Multi 64 Bit
16.7 Points (22%)
Cinebench R11.5 - Cinebench R11.5 CPU Single 64 Bit
2.3 Points (54%)
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Single (32bit)
7611 Points (46%)
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Multi (32bit)
41156 Points (30%)
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Multi (64bit)
52577 Points (34%)
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Single (64bit)
9898 Points (12%)
wPrime 2.10 - wPrime 2.0 1024m *
119.5 s (1%)
wPrime 2.10 - wPrime 2.0 32m *
3.3 s (1%)
WinRAR - WinRAR 4.0
6555 Points (10%)
7-Zip 18.03 - 7-Zip 18.03 Multi Thread 4 runs
43007 MIPS (25%)
7-Zip 18.03 - 7-Zip 18.03 Single Thread 4 runs
5293 MIPS (62%)
X264 HD Benchmark 4.0 - x264 Pass 2
84.8 fps (28%)
X264 HD Benchmark 4.0 - x264 Pass 1
236 fps (54%)
HWBOT x265 Benchmark v2.2 - HWBOT x265 4k Preset
11.6 fps (20%)
TrueCrypt - TrueCrypt Serpent
1.1 GB/s (32%)
TrueCrypt - TrueCrypt Twofish
1.8 GB/s (31%)
TrueCrypt - TrueCrypt AES
10.3 GB/s (27%)
Blender - Blender 2.79 BMW27 CPU *
315.4 Seconds (2%)
R Benchmark 2.5 - R Benchmark 2.5 *
0.6 sec (13%)
Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 1M - Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 1M *
8.1 s (2%)
Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 2M - Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 2M *
17.2 s (1%)
Super Pi Mod 1.5 XS 32M - Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 32M *
439.6 s (2%)
3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance Physics
15497 Points (38%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
62614 Points (51%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
62334 Points (51%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
min: 27400     avg: 27548     median: 27547 (22%)     max: 27717 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Physics
13579 Points (34%)
3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Physics
20080 Points (36%)
3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy CPU
8580 Points (36%)
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics
100%
1 A15 +
min: 1852     avg: 2027     median: 1913 (18%)     max: 2307 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited Physics
100%
1 A15 +
2130 Points (24%)
Geekbench 6.4 - Geekbench 6.4 Single-Core
100%
1 A15 +
2332 Points (58%)
1325 Points (33%)
Geekbench 6.4 - Geekbench 6.4 Multi-Core
100%
1 A15 +
5661 Points (22%)
2850 Points (11%)
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.5 64 Bit Single-Core
1299 Points (51%)
133%
A15 +
min: 1590     avg: 1723     median: 1734 (68%)     max: 1755 Points
min: 1116     avg: 1118     median: 1117.5 (44%)     max: 1119 Points
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.5 64 Bit Multi-Core
8173 Points (15%)
59%
A15 +
min: 4559     avg: 4755     median: 4788 (9%)     max: 4914 Points
min: 2772     avg: 2815     median: 2814.5 (5%)     max: 2857 Points
Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Single-Core
1304 Points (6%)
1118 Points (5%)
Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
8196 Points (26%)
2910 Points (9%)
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Single-Core
5726 Points (57%)
min: 4750     avg: 4779     median: 4774 (48%)     max: 4824 Points
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
32174 Points (32%)
min: 11244     avg: 11418     median: 11480 (11%)     max: 11598 Points
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
752 ms (1%)
167%
A15 +
min: 413.6     avg: 455.6     median: 451 (1%)     max: 507.3 ms
min: 603     avg: 627     median: 626.5 (1%)     max: 653 ms
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
100%
1 A15 +
77 ms (1%)
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
100%
1 A15 +
min: 57143     avg: 63305     median: 64026.5 (47%)     max: 65969 Points
min: 41367     avg: 42312     median: 42333.5 (31%)     max: 43280 Points
WebXPRT 4 - WebXPRT 4 Score
100%
1 A15 +
min: 188     avg: 188.3     median: 188 (52%)     max: 189 Points
WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
244 Points (44%)
102%
A15 +
min: 219     avg: 254.3     median: 250 (45%)     max: 279 Points
min: 155     avg: 159.5     median: 159.5 (29%)     max: 166 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 MEM
min: 7312     avg: 9998     median: 10135.5 (31%)     max: 12409 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 UX
min: 59570     avg: 65177     median: 66701 (82%)     max: 67735 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 GPU
min: 129473     avg: 147840     median: 151931 (47%)     max: 158023 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 CPU
min: 106600     avg: 124761     median: 127986 (78%)     max: 136472 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 Total Score
min: 302955     avg: 347775     median: 358800 (63%)     max: 370545 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 UX
min: 71574     avg: 71607     median: 71606.5 (60%)     max: 71639 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 MEM
min: 45962     avg: 56767     median: 56767 (46%)     max: 67572 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 GPU
min: 166588     avg: 170290     median: 170290 (31%)     max: 173992 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 CPU
min: 98561     avg: 122385     median: 122385 (44%)     max: 146209 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 Total Score
min: 411764     avg: 421049     median: 421048 (41%)     max: 430333 Points
Antutu v9 - AnTuTu v9 Total Score
100%
1 A15 +
min: 722973     avg: 788523     median: 800415 (39%)     max: 832548 Points
549549 Points (27%)
Antutu v9 - AnTuTu v9 CPU
100%
1 A15 +
min: 192891     avg: 209810     median: 209802 (52%)     max: 227638 Points
129427 Points (32%)
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
100%
1 A15 +
min: 10349     avg: 10411     median: 10410.5 (1%)     max: 10472 Points
min: 482773     avg: 486852     median: 486197 (64%)     max: 491585 Points
CrossMark - CrossMark Overall
100%
1 A15 +
min: 1132     avg: 1156     median: 1145 (43%)     max: 1190 Points
Power Consumption - Prime95 Power Consumption - external Monitor *
116.3 Watt (20%)
Power Consumption - Cinebench R15 Multi Power Consumption - external Monitor *
148 Watt (27%)
Power Consumption - Geekbench 5.5 Power Consumption 150cd *
100%
1 A15 +
min: 4.54     avg: 4.9     median: 5 (2%)     max: 5.64 Watt
Power Consumption - Idle Power Consumption 150cd 1min *
100%
1 A15 +
min: 0     avg: 0.7     median: 0.7 (1%)     max: 1.415 Watt
Power Consumption - Power Efficiency - Cinebench R15 Multi external Monitor
9.8 Points per Watt (7%)

Average Benchmarks Intel Core i7-10700 → 100% n=4

Average Benchmarks Apple A15 Bionic → 115% n=4

Average Benchmarks Apple A12 Bionic → 76% n=4

- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
red legend - Average benchmark values for this graphics card
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
1 This benchmark is not used for the average calculation

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