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AMD A12-9700P vs Apple M4
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Benchmarks
Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks
Single-core performance
Multi-core performance
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance
AMD A12-9700P
19 %
4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz
Apple M4
100 %
9C / 9T · 4.46 GHz
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
AMD A12-9700P
18 %
AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge)
Apple M4
100 %
Apple M4 (10 Core)
More benchmarks
Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries
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Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries
422 entries
Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries
690 entries
Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries
665 entries
Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries
1,989 entries
Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries
1,927 entries
Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries
2,512 entries
Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries
2,483 entries
FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries
2,219 entries
AnTuTu 10 Benchmark
25 entries
25 entries
PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries
2,504 entries
Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries
1,113 entries
Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries
1,110 entries
CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries
140 entries
AI performance (NPU)
218 entries
218 entries
Specifications
At a glance
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Wischen
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AMD A12-9700P | Apple M4 |
|---|---|---|
| Family | AMD A (112) | Apple M series (38) |
| CPU group | AMD A12-9700 (2) | Apple M4 (7) |
| Architecture | Excavator (Bristol Ridge) | M4 |
| Technology | 28 nm | 3 nm |
| Segment | Notebook | Notebook |
| Socket | FP4 | |
| Predecessor | Apple M3 | |
| Successor | Apple M5 |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
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Wischen
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AMD A12-9700P | Apple M4 |
|---|---|---|
| CPU Cores / Threads | 4 / 4 | 9 / 9 |
| Hyperthreading / SMT | ✗ | ✗ |
| Core architecture | normal | hybrid (big.LITTLE) |
| Core Cluster 1: | 4x Excavator 2.50 - 3.40 GHz |
3x Donan P-Core 0.91 - 4.46 GHz |
| Core Cluster 2: | 6x Donan E-Core 0.90 - 2.85 GHz |
|
| L2-Cache | 2.00 MB | 20.00 MB |
| L3-Cache | ||
| Overclocking | ✗ | ✗ |
Integrated graphics (iGPU)
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Wischen
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AMD A12-9700P | Apple M4 |
|---|---|---|
| GPU name | AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge) | Apple M4 (10 Core) |
| GPU frequency | 0.76 GHz | 0.34 - 1.58 GHz |
| CUs / Shader | 8 / 512 | 160 / 1280 |
| Raytracing | ✗ | ✓ |
| Max. displays | 2 | 3 |
| Max. GPU Memory | 2 GB | 24 GB |
| Technology | 28 nm | 3 nm |
| Release date | Q2/2016 | Q2/2024 |
NPU AI performance
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Wischen
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AMD A12-9700P | Apple M4 |
|---|---|---|
| AI hardware | Apple Neural Engine | |
| AI specifications | 16 Neural cores @ 38 TOPS | |
| NPU + CPU + iGPU |
Memory & PCIe
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Wischen
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AMD A12-9700P | Apple M4 |
|---|---|---|
| Memory | DDR4-1866 (29.9 GB/s) | LPDDR5X-7500 (120.0 GB/s) |
| Max. Memory | 64 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory channels | 2 | 2 |
| ECC | No | No |
| PCIe | 3.0 x 8 | 4.0 |
| PCIe Bandwidth | 7.9 GB/s |
Thermal Management
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Wischen
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AMD A12-9700P | Apple M4 |
|---|---|---|
| TDP | 15 W | 20 W |
| TDP (PL2) | ||
| TDP up | ||
| TDP down | 15 W | |
| T. junction max. | 90 °C | 100 °C |
Technical details
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Wischen
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AMD A12-9700P | Apple M4 |
|---|---|---|
| Chip design | Unknown | Monolithic |
| AES-NI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Operating systems | macOS, iPadOS | |
| Instruction set | x86-64 (64 bit) | Armv9.2-A (64 bit) |
| ISA extensions | SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, FMA4 | Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation, AVX2, SME |
| Release date | Q4/2016 | Q2/2024 |
| Release price | ||
| Documents | Technical data sheet |
User Reviews
Your rating
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