Apple A16 Bionic vs Intel Core i7-8550U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Apple A series Intel Core i7
• CPU group
  Apple A16 Intel Core i 8000U
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  16 8
• Predecessor
  Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU) --

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
• 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 A16 (5 GPU Cores) Intel UHD Graphics 620
• GPU frequency
  0.70 GHz 0.30 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 1.15 GHz
• Execution units
  160 24
• Shader
  1280 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 64 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  13 9.5
• Technology
  4 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2022 Q3/2016

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i7-8550U and Apple A16 Bionic. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR5-6400 DDR4-2400 SO-DIMM
• Max. Memory
  6 GB 32 GB
• Memory channels
  1 (Single Channel) 2
• ECC
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Apple A16 Bionic and Intel Core i7-8550U 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 A16 Bionic and Apple A16 Bionic, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Technology
  4 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  N/A BGA 1356
• L2-Cache
  20.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  24.00 MB 8.00 MB
• Architecture
  A16 Kaby Lake U Refresh
• Virtualization
  None VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• Release date
  Q3/2022 Q3/2017