Intel Xeon Gold 5117 vs Apple A9. Specifications

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

• CPU group
  Intel Xeon Gold 5100/6100 Apple A9/A9X
• Family
  Intel Xeon Gold Apple A series
• Generation
  1 9
• Predecessor
  - Apple A8
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Successor
  - Apple A10 Fusion

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

• A-Core
  - 2x Twister
• Base Frequency
  2 GHz 1.85 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  14 2
• CPU Threads
  28 2
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  2.8 GHz No turbo
• Turbo Frequency (14 Cores)
  2.4 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  - 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.

• Execution units
  - 6
• Generation
  - 6
• GPU Frequency
  - 650 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU Apple A9
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo
• Max. displays
  - 1
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 4 GB
• Release date
  - Q3/2015
• Shader
  - 192
• Technology
  - 16 nm

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple A9 and Intel Xeon Gold 5117. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  - 2 GB
• Memory channels
  6 1
• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 LPDDR4-3200
• PCIe lanes
  48 -
• PCIe version
  3.0 -

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon Gold 5117 and Apple A9 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)
  105 W 5 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon Gold 5117 and Apple A9, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Skylake A9
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512 -
• L2-Cache
  - 3 MB
• L3-Cache
  19 MB 4 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2017 Q3/2015
• Socket
  LGA 3647 -
• Technology
  14 nm 16 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d None