Apple A5X vs Intel Core i5-4260U. 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 A5/A5X Intel Core i 4000U
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  5 4
• Successor
  Apple A6X --

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
  normal normal
• Frequency
  1.00 GHz 1.40 GHz
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 2.70 GHz
• Turbo (2 Cores)
  No turbo 2.70 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• 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
  PowerVR SGX543MP4 (4 Cores) Intel HD Graphics 5000
• GPU frequency
  0.20 GHz 0.20 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 1.00 GHz
• Execution units
  8 40
• Shader
  64 320
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 2 GB
• Max. displays
  1 3
• Generation
  7.5
• Technology
  45 nm 22 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2012 Q2/2013

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-4260U and Apple A5X. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR2-800 DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM
• Max. Memory
  1 GB
• Memory channels
  4 2
• ECC
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Apple A5X and Intel Core i5-4260U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  15 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Apple A5X and Apple A5X, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv7-A32 (32 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  1.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  -- 3.00 MB
• Architecture
  A5 Haswell U
• Technology
  32 nm 22 nm
• Virtualization
  None VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• Socket
  N/A BGA 1168
• Release date
  Q1/2011 Q2/2014
• Part Number
  APL 5498 --