Apple A16 Bionic vs Intel Core i5-13400F. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Apple A series Intel Core i5
• CPU group
  Apple A16 Intel Core i 13000
• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server
• Generation
  16 13
• Predecessor
  Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU) Intel Core i5-12400

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.

• CPU Cores / Threads
  6 / 6 10 / 16
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• A-Core
  2x Everest 6x Raptor Cove
• B-Core
  4x Sawtooth 4x Gracemont
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• A-Core Frequency
  3.46 GHz 2.50 GHz (4.60 GHz)
• B-Core Frequency
  2.02 GHz 2.50 GHz (3.30 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.

• GPU name
  Apple A16 (5 GPU Cores) no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  0.70 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  160
• Shader
  1280
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB --
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  13
• Technology
  4 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2022

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

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode No
• h264
  Decode / Encode No
• VP8
  Decode / Encode No
• VP9
  Decode / Encode No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-13400F and Apple A16 Bionic. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR5-6400 DDR5-4800
• Max. Memory
  6 GB 128 GB
• Memory channels
  1 (Single Channel) 2 (Dual Channel)
• Bandwidth
  51.2 GB/s 89.6 GB/s
• ECC
  No Yes
• PCIe
  5.0 x 20
• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Apple A16 Bionic and Intel Core i5-13400F to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  8.5 W 65 W
• TDP (PL2)
  -- 117 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 100 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Apple A16 Bionic and Apple A16 Bionic, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Technology
  4 nm 10 nm
• Chip design
  Chiplet Monolithic
• Socket
  N/A LGA 1700
• L2-Cache
  20.00 MB 20.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  24.00 MB 20.00 MB
• Architecture
  A16 Alder Lake S Refresh
• Operating systems
  iOS Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
• 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, AVX2+
• Release date
  Q3/2022 Q1/2023