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AMD A12-9720P vs Apple A18 Pro
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Benchmarks
Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks
Single-core performance
Multi-core performance
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
AMD A12-9720P
22 %
AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge)
Apple A18 Pro
100 %
Apple A18 Pro (6 GPU Cores)
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Specifications
At a glance
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Wischen
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AMD A12-9720P | Apple A18 Pro |
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| Family | AMD A (112) | Apple A series (27) |
| CPU group | AMD A12-9700 (2) | Apple A18 (2) |
| Architecture | Excavator (Bristol Ridge) | Donan |
| Technology | 28 nm | 3 nm |
| Segment | Notebook | Smartphone / Tablet |
| Socket | FP4 | |
| Predecessor | Apple A17 Pro | |
| Successor | Apple A19 Pro |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
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AMD A12-9720P | Apple A18 Pro |
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| CPU Cores / Threads | 4 / 4 | 6 / 6 |
| Hyperthreading / SMT | ✗ | ✗ |
| Core architecture | normal | hybrid (big.LITTLE) |
| Core Cluster 1: | 4x Excavator 2.70 - 3.60 GHz |
2x Donan P-Core 0.70 - 4.04 GHz |
| Core Cluster 2: | 4x Donan E-Core 0.74 - 2.30 GHz |
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| L2-Cache | 2.00 MB | 20.00 MB |
| L3-Cache | 24.00 MB | |
| Overclocking | ✗ | ✗ |
Integrated graphics (iGPU)
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AMD A12-9720P | Apple A18 Pro |
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| GPU name | AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge) | Apple A18 Pro (6 GPU Cores) |
| GPU frequency | 0.76 GHz | 0.39 - 1.68 GHz |
| CUs / Shader | 8 / 512 | 24 / 768 |
| Raytracing | ✗ | ✓ |
| Max. displays | 2 | 1 |
| Max. GPU Memory | 2 GB | 8 GB |
| Technology | 28 nm | 3 nm |
| Release date | Q2/2016 | Q3/2024 |
NPU AI performance
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AMD A12-9720P | Apple A18 Pro |
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| AI hardware | Apple Neural Engine | |
| AI specifications | 16 Neural cores @ 38 TOPS | |
| NPU + CPU + iGPU |
Memory & PCIe
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AMD A12-9720P | Apple A18 Pro |
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| Memory | DDR4-1866 (29.9 GB/s) | LPDDR5X-7500 (60.0 GB/s) |
| Max. Memory | 64 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory channels | 2 | 1 |
| ECC | No | No |
| PCIe | 3.0 x 8 | |
| PCIe Bandwidth | 7.9 GB/s |
Thermal Management
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AMD A12-9720P | Apple A18 Pro |
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| TDP | 15 W | 12 W |
| TDP (PL2) | ||
| TDP up | ||
| TDP down | ||
| T. junction max. | 90 °C |
Technical details
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Wischen
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AMD A12-9720P | Apple A18 Pro |
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| Chip design | Unknown | Chiplet |
| AES-NI | ✓ | ✗ |
| Operating systems | iOS | |
| Instruction set | x86-64 (64 bit) | Armv9-A (64 bit) |
| ISA extensions | SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, FMA4 | |
| Release date | Q4/2016 | Q3/2024 |
| Release price | ||
| Documents |
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Your rating
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