Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3 vs Apple A15 Bionic. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Xeon E3 v3 Apple A15
• Family
  Intel Xeon E3 Apple A series
• Generation
  4 15
• Predecessor
  - Apple A14 Bionic
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile

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

• A-Core
  - 2x Avalanche
• B-Core
  - 4x Blizzard
• Base Frequency
  3.3 GHz 3.23 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• CPU Cores
  4 6
• CPU Threads
  8 6
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.7 GHz No turbo
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  3.7 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (6 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
  - 5
• Generation
  - 12
• GPU Frequency
  - 1800 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU Apple A15 (5 GPU Cores)
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 3200 MHz
• Max. displays
  - 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 8 GB
• Release date
  - Q3/2021
• Shader
  - 0
• Technology
  - 5 nm

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple A15 Bionic and Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  - 8 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1600 LPDDR4X-4266

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3 and Apple A15 Bionic 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)
  80 W 8.5 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3 and Apple A15 Bionic, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Haswell S A15
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 -
• L2-Cache
  - 4 MB
• L3-Cache
  8 MB -
• Release date
  Q2/2013 Q3/2021
• Socket
  LGA 1150 -
• Technology
  22 nm 5 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d None