Apple A10X Fusion vs Intel Core i5-6360U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Apple A10/A10X Intel Core i 6000U
• Family
  Apple A series Intel Core i5
• Generation
  10 6
• Predecessor
  Apple A9X -
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Successor
  Apple A12Z Bionic -

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

• A-Core
  3x Hurricane -
• B-Core
  3x Zephyr -
• Base Frequency
  1.3 GHz 2 GHz
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) normal
• CPU Cores
  6 2
• CPU Threads
  6 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  2.38 GHz 3.1 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
  2.38 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  - 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
  12 48
• Generation
  7 9
• GPU Frequency
  900 MHz 300 MHz
• GPU name
  Apple A10X Intel Iris Graphics 540
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 1050 MHz
• Max. displays
  1 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  4 GB 32 GB
• Release date
  Q2/2017 Q3/2015
• Shader
  384 384
• Technology
  10 nm 14 nm

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-6360U and Apple A10X Fusion. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Max. Memory
  3 GB -
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  LPDDR4-3200 DDR4-2133 SO-DIMM
• PCIe lanes
  - 12
• PCIe version
  - 3.0

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Apple A10X Fusion and Intel Core i5-6360U 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 W 15 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Apple A10X Fusion and Intel Core i5-6360U, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  A10 Skylake U
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  - SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  8 MB -
• L3-Cache
  - 4 MB
• Release date
  Q2/2017 Q3/2015
• Socket
  - BGA 1356
• Technology
  10 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  None VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d