Apple A15 Bionic vs Intel Core i5-7200U. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  Apple A series Intel Core i5
• Generation
  15 7
• CPU group
  Apple A15 Intel Core i 7000U
• Predecessor
  Apple A14 Bionic --

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  3.23 GHz 2.50 GHz
• CPU Cores
  6 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 3.10 GHz
• CPU Threads
  6 4
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) normal
• A core
  2x Avalanche --
• B core
  4x Blizzard --

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  Apple A15 (5 GPU Cores) Intel HD Graphics 620
• GPU frequency
  1.80 GHz 0.30 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  3.20 GHz 1.00 GHz
• Execution units
  5 24
• Shader
  0 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 32 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  12 9.5
• DirectX Version
  12
• Technology
  5 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2021 Q2/2016

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  Decode No
• AVC
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-7200U and Apple A15 Bionic. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR4X-4266 DDR4-2133 SO-DIMM
• Max. Memory
  8 GB 32 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0
• PCIe lanes
  12

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Apple A15 Bionic and Intel Core i5-7200U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  8.5 W 15 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Apple A15 Bionic and Apple A15 Bionic, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  4.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  -- 3.00 MB
• Architecture
  A15 Kaby Lake U
• Technology
  5 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  N/A BGA 1356
• Release date
  Q3/2021 Q4/2016