Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) vs Intel Core i3-1110G4. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Apple A series Intel Core i3
• CPU group
  Apple A15 Intel Core i 1100G/11000U
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  15 11

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.

• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) normal
• Frequency
  3.23 GHz 1.10 GHz
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 3.50 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No

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 (4 GPU Cores) Intel UHD Graphics (Tiger Lake G4)
• GPU frequency
  0.60 GHz 0.30 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 1.10 GHz
• Execution units
  128 48
• Shader
  1024 384
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 8 GB
• Max. displays
  3 4
• Generation
  12 11
• Technology
  5 nm 10 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2021 Q3/2020

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
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode Decode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i3-1110G4 and Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU). Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR4X-4266 LPDDR4X-4266
• Max. Memory
  8 GB 32 GB
• Memory channels
  1 2
• ECC
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) and Intel Core i3-1110G4 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  8.5 W 15 W
• TDP down
  -- 7 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 100 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) and Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU), virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
• L2-Cache
  16.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  -- 8.00 MB
• Architecture
  A15 Tiger Lake U
• Technology
  5 nm 10 nm
• Virtualization
  None VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• Socket
  N/A BGA 1526
• Release date
  Q3/2021 Q1/2021