Apple A15 Bionic vs Intel Core i5-8265U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Apple A15 Intel Core i 8000U
• Family
  Apple A series Intel Core i5
• Generation
  15 8
• Predecessor
  Apple A14 Bionic -
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• A-Core
  2x Avalanche -
• B-Core
  4x Blizzard -
• Base Frequency
  3.23 GHz 1.6 GHz
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) normal
• CPU Cores
  6 4
• CPU Threads
  6 8
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  No turbo 3.9 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
  No turbo -
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  - 2.3 GHz

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

• DirectX Version
  - 12
• Execution units
  5 24
• Generation
  12 9.5
• GPU Frequency
  1800 MHz 300 MHz
• GPU name
  Apple A15 (5 GPU Cores) Intel UHD Graphics 620
• GPU Turbo
  3200 MHz 1100 MHz
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 64 GB
• Release date
  Q3/2021 Q3/2016
• Shader
  0 192
• Technology
  5 nm 14 nm

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

• AV1
  Decode No
• H.264 / AVC
  Conflicting source values: Decode | Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-8265U and Apple A15 Bionic. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Max. Memory
  8 GB 32 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  LPDDR4X-4266 DDR4-2400 SO-DIMM
• PCIe lanes
  - 16
• PCIe version
  - 3.0

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Apple A15 Bionic and Intel Core i5-8265U Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  8.5 W 15 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Apple A15 Bionic and Intel Core i5-8265U, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  A15 Whiskey Lake U
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  - SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  4 MB -
• L3-Cache
  - 6 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2021 Q3/2018
• Socket
  - BGA 1356
• Technology
  5 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  None VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d