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AMD A12-9800 vs Apple M4

Last updated: 2026-06-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 28 %

AMD A12-9800

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 17 %

AMD A12-9800

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 4.20 GHz

655 pts

9C / 9T · 4.46 GHz

2,125 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.80 GHz

1,979 pts

9C / 9T · 0.91 GHz

11,575 pts

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

4C / 4T · 4.20 GHz

607

9C / 9T · 4.46 GHz

2,491

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge)

1,143

Apple M4 (10 Core)

4,260

More benchmarks

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

AnTuTu 10 Benchmark
25 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 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 A12-9800	Apple M4
Family	AMD A (112)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	AMD A12-9800 (1)	Apple M4 (7)
Architecture	Excavator (Bristol Ridge)	M4
Technology	28 nm	3 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	AM4 (PGA 1331)
Predecessor		Apple M3
Successor		Apple M5

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	AMD A12-9800	Apple M4
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	9 / 9
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x Excavator 3.80 - 4.20 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)

Wischen	AMD A12-9800	Apple M4
GPU name	AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge)	Apple M4 (10 Core)
GPU frequency	1.11 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

Wischen	AMD A12-9800	Apple M4
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 38 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	AMD A12-9800	Apple M4
Memory	DDR4-2400 (38.4 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

Wischen	AMD A12-9800	Apple M4
TDP	65 W	20 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down		15 W
T. junction max.	90 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	AMD A12-9800	Apple M4
Chip design	Unknown	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	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	Q3/2017	Q2/2024
Release price
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

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Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

AMD A12-9800
4C / 4T · 3.80 - 4.20 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M4
9C / 9T · 0.91 - 4.46 GHz

★★★★★