Intel Core i5-9400F vs Apple A12Z Bionic. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Family
  Intel Core i5 Apple A series
• Generation
  9 12
• CPU group
  Intel Core i 9000 Apple A12/A12X/A12Z
• Predecessor
  Intel Core i5-8400 Apple A10X Fusion
• Successor
  Intel Core i5-10400F --

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.

• Frequency
  2.90 GHz 1.59 GHz
• CPU Cores
  6 8
• Turbo (1 Core)
  4.10 GHz 2.49 GHz
• CPU Threads
  6 8
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• A core
  -- 4x Vortex
• B core
  -- 4x Tempest

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
  no iGPU Apple A12Z
• GPU frequency
  1.59 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 2.49 GHz
• Execution units
  8
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 6 GB
• Max. displays
  2
• Generation
  9
• DirectX Version
  --
• Technology
  7 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2020

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple A12Z Bionic and Intel Core i5-9400F. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2666 LPDDR4X-4266
• Max. Memory
  128 GB 16 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0
• PCIe lanes
  16

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Core i5-9400F and Apple A12Z Bionic to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  65 W 15 W
• Tjunction max.
  100 °C --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Core i5-9400F and Intel Core i5-9400F, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d None
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  -- 8.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  9.00 MB --
• Architecture
  Coffee Lake S Refresh A12
• Technology
  14 nm 7 nm
• Socket
  LGA 1151-2 N/A
• Release date
  Q1/2019 Q1/2020