Apple A14 Bionic vs Intel Xeon E5-2658 v2

Comparative analysis of Apple A14 Bionic and Intel Xeon E5-2658 v2 processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Graphics, Compatibility, Peripherals, Security & Reliability, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark, Geekbench 4 - Single Core, Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple A14 Bionic

  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 5 nm vs 22 nm
  • 15.8x lower typical power consumption: 6 Watt vs 95 Watt
  • 2.2x better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 3393 vs 1529
Specifications (specs)
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 22 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 6 Watt vs 95 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 3393 vs 1529

Reasons to consider the Intel Xeon E5-2658 v2

  • 4 more cores, run more applications at once: 10 vs 6
  • 14 more threads: 20 vs 6
  • 128x more maximum memory size: 768 GB vs 6 GB
  • 2.1x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 18250 vs 8547
Specifications (specs)
Number of cores 10 vs 6
Number of threads 20 vs 6
Maximum memory size 768 GB vs 6 GB
Max number of CPUs in a configuration 2 vs 1
Benchmarks
PassMark - CPU mark 18250 vs 8547

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: Apple A14 Bionic
CPU 2: Intel Xeon E5-2658 v2

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
3393
1529
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
8547
18250
Name Apple A14 Bionic Intel Xeon E5-2658 v2
PassMark - Single thread mark 3393 1529
PassMark - CPU mark 8547 18250
Geekbench 4 - Single Core 2846
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core 19410

Compare specifications (specs)

Apple A14 Bionic Intel Xeon E5-2658 v2

Essentials

Architecture codename Firestorm/Icestorm Ivy Bridge EP
Launch date 23 Oct 2020 Q3'13
OS Support iOS 14.0, iPadOS 14.0, iOS 16.4.1, iPadOS 16.4.1
Place in performance rating 559 570
Processor Number APL1W01 E5-2658V2
Vertical segment Mobile Embedded
Series Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 v2 Family
Status Launched

Performance

Base frequency 1.82 GHz 2.40 GHz
L1 cache 192 KB instruction + 128 KB data (per core)
L2 cache 8 MB (shared)
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 22 nm
Maximum frequency 3.00 GHz 3.00 GHz
Number of cores 6 10
Number of threads 6 20
Transistor count 11.8 billion
64 bit support
Bus Speed 8 GT/s QPI
Maximum core temperature 87°C
Number of QPI Links 2
VID voltage range 0.65–1.30V

Memory

Max memory channels 1 4
Maximum memory bandwidth 34.1 GB/s 59.7 GB/s
Maximum memory size 6 GB 768 GB
Supported memory types LPDDR4X-4266 DDR3 800/1066/1333/1600/1866

Graphics

Execution Units 16
Graphics base frequency 1278 MHz
iGPU core count 4

Compatibility

Max number of CPUs in a configuration 1 2
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 6 Watt 95 Watt
Low Halogen Options Available
Package Size 52.5mm x 45mm
Sockets supported FCLGA2011

Peripherals

Max number of PCIe lanes 40
PCI Express revision 3.0
PCIe configurations x4, x8, x16
Scalability 2S

Security & Reliability

Execute Disable Bit (EDB)
Intel® Identity Protection technology
Intel® OS Guard
Intel® Secure Key technology
Intel® Trusted Execution technology (TXT)

Advanced Technologies

Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® technology
Idle States
Instruction set extensions Intel® AVX
Intel 64
Intel® AES New Instructions
Intel® Demand Based Switching
Intel® Flex Memory Access
Intel® Hyper-Threading technology
Intel® TSX-NI
Intel® Turbo Boost technology
Intel® vPro™ Platform Eligibility
Physical Address Extensions (PAE) 46-bit
Thermal Monitoring

Virtualization

Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x)
Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d)
Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT)