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AMD A12-9720P vs Apple M5 (10-CPU)
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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
15 %
AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge)
Apple M5 (10-CPU)
100 %
Apple M5 (10 Core)
More benchmarks
Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries
218 entries
Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries
219 entries
Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries
427 entries
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
CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries
751 entries
Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries
1,113 entries
Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries
1,110 entries
Specifications
At a glance
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Wischen
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AMD A12-9720P | Apple M5 (10-CPU) |
|---|---|---|
| Family | AMD A (112) | Apple M series (38) |
| CPU group | AMD A12-9700 (2) | Apple M5 (6) |
| Architecture | Excavator (Bristol Ridge) | M5 |
| Technology | 28 nm | 3 nm |
| Segment | Notebook | Notebook |
| Socket | FP4 | |
| Predecessor | Apple M4 (10-CPU) | |
| Successor |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
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Wischen
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AMD A12-9720P | Apple M5 (10-CPU) |
|---|---|---|
| CPU Cores / Threads | 4 / 4 | 10 / 10 |
| Hyperthreading / SMT | ✗ | ✗ |
| Core architecture | normal | hybrid (big.LITTLE) |
| Core Cluster 1: | 4x Excavator 2.70 - 3.60 GHz |
4x P-Core 0.91 - 4.61 GHz |
| Core Cluster 2: | 6x E-Core 0.90 - 3.05 GHz |
|
| L2-Cache | 2.00 MB | 28.00 MB |
| L3-Cache | ||
| Overclocking | ✗ | ✗ |
Integrated graphics (iGPU)
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Wischen
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AMD A12-9720P | Apple M5 (10-CPU) |
|---|---|---|
| GPU name | AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge) | Apple M5 (10 Core) |
| GPU frequency | 0.76 GHz | 0.34 - 1.90 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 | Q4/2025 |
NPU AI performance
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Wischen
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AMD A12-9720P | Apple M5 (10-CPU) |
|---|---|---|
| AI hardware | Apple Neural Engine | |
| AI specifications | 16 Neural cores @ 60 TOPS | |
| NPU + CPU + iGPU |
Memory & PCIe
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Wischen
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AMD A12-9720P | Apple M5 (10-CPU) |
|---|---|---|
| Memory | DDR4-1866 (29.9 GB/s) | LPDDR5X-9600 (153.6 GB/s) |
| Max. Memory | 64 GB | 32 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 A12-9720P | Apple M5 (10-CPU) |
|---|---|---|
| TDP | 15 W | 28 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 A12-9720P | Apple M5 (10-CPU) |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Q4/2025 |
| Release price | ||
| Documents |
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Your rating
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