Intel Core i5-11400F vs Apple A15 Bionic. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Core i 11000 Apple A15
• Family
  Intel Core i5 Apple A series
• Generation
  11 15
• Predecessor
  Intel Core i5-10400F Apple A14 Bionic
• Segment
  Desktop / Server 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
  2.6 GHz 3.23 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• CPU Cores
  6 6
• CPU Threads
  12 6
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  4.4 GHz No turbo
• Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
  4.2 GHz No turbo

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
  None Apple A15 (5 GPU Cores)
• Execution units
  - 5
• Generation
  - 12
• GPU Frequency
  - 1800 MHz
• GPU Turbo
  - 3200 MHz
• Max. displays
  - 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 8 GB
• Release date
  - Q3/2021
• Shader
  - 0
• Technology
  - 5 nm

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple A15 Bionic and Intel Core i5-11400F. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Max. Memory
  128 GB 8 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-3200 LPDDR4X-4266
• PCIe lanes
  20 -
• PCIe version
  4.0 -

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Core i5-11400F and Apple A15 Bionic Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  100 °C -
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  65 W 8.5 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Core i5-11400F and Apple A15 Bionic, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Rocket Lake S A15
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512 -
• L2-Cache
  3 MB 4 MB
• L3-Cache
  12 MB -
• Release date
  Q1/2021 Q3/2021
• Socket
  LGA 1200 -
• Technology
  14 nm 5 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d None