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AMD A12-9700P vs Apple M3 Max (16-CPU 40-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-04-08

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 22 %

AMD A12-9700P

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M3 Max (16-CPU 40-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 5 %

AMD A12-9700P

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M3 Max (16-CPU 40-GPU)

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

481

16C / 16T · 4.06 GHz

2,150

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.70 GHz

1,239

16C / 16T · 3.60 GHz

22,736

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge)

782

Apple M3 Max (40 Core)

14,200

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

72 cb

16C / 16T · 4.06 GHz

266 cb

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.70 GHz

223 cb

16C / 16T · 3.60 GHz

3,375 cb

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	AMD A12-9700P	Apple M3 Max (16-CPU 40-GPU)
Family	AMD A (112)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	AMD A12-9700 (2)	Apple M3 (6)
Architecture	Excavator (Bristol Ridge)	M3
Technology	28 nm	3 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket	FP4
Predecessor		Apple M2 Max (30-GPU)
Successor		Apple M4 Max (16-CPU 40-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	AMD A12-9700P	Apple M3 Max (16-CPU 40-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	16 / 16
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x Excavator 2.50 - 3.40 GHz	12x Palma P-Core 0.70 - 4.06 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		4x Palma E-Core 0.74 - 2.75 GHz
L2-Cache	2.00 MB	36.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	AMD A12-9700P	Apple M3 Max (16-CPU 40-GPU)
GPU name	AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge)	Apple M3 Max (40 Core)
GPU frequency	0.76 GHz	0.39 - 1.40 GHz
CUs / Shader	8 / 512	640 / 5120
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays	2	5
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB	128 GB
Technology	28 nm	3 nm
Release date	Q2/2016	Q4/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	AMD A12-9700P	Apple M3 Max (16-CPU 40-GPU)
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 35 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	AMD A12-9700P	Apple M3 Max (16-CPU 40-GPU)
Memory	DDR4-1866 (29.9 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (409.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	64 GB	128 GB
Memory channels	2	4
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 8	4.0
PCIe Bandwidth	7.9 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	AMD A12-9700P	Apple M3 Max (16-CPU 40-GPU)
TDP	15 W	57 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	90 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	AMD A12-9700P	Apple M3 Max (16-CPU 40-GPU)
Chip design	Unknown	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems		macOS, iPadOS
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, FMA4	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q4/2016	Q4/2023
Release price
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User Reviews

Your rating

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Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

AMD A12-9700P
4C / 4T · 2.50 - 3.40 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M3 Max (16-CPU 40-GPU)
16C / 16T · 0.70 - 4.06 GHz

★★★★★