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AMD GX-420CA 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 - 8 %

AMD GX-420CA

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 7 %

AMD GX-420CA

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.00 GHz

230

9C / 9T · 4.46 GHz

3,767

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.00 GHz

682

9C / 9T · 0.91 GHz

13,295

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

4C / 4T · 2.00 GHz

258

9C / 9T · 4.46 GHz

2,491

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

AMD Radeon HD 8400

154

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

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

AnTuTu 10 Benchmark
25 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	AMD GX-420CA	Apple M4
Family	AMD G (38)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	AMD G-Series 1st Gen (9)	Apple M4 (7)
Architecture	Temash (Jaguar)	M4
Technology	28 nm	3 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket	FT3
Predecessor		Apple M3
Successor		Apple M5

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	AMD GX-420CA	Apple M4
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	9 / 9
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x Jaguar 2.00 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 GX-420CA	Apple M4
GPU name	AMD Radeon HD 8400	Apple M4 (10 Core)
GPU frequency	0.60 GHz	0.34 - 1.58 GHz
CUs / Shader	2 / 128	160 / 1280
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays	2	3
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB	24 GB
Technology	28 nm	3 nm
Release date	Q2/2013	Q2/2024

NPU AI performance

Wischen	AMD GX-420CA	Apple M4
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 38 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	AMD GX-420CA	Apple M4
Memory	DDR3-1600 (12.8 GB/s)	LPDDR5X-7500 (120.0 GB/s)
Max. Memory	16 GB	8 GB
Memory channels	1	2
ECC	Yes	No
PCIe	2.0 x 8	4.0
PCIe Bandwidth	4.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	AMD GX-420CA	Apple M4
TDP	25 W	20 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down		15 W
T. junction max.	90 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	AMD GX-420CA	Apple M4
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	macOS, iPadOS
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv9.2-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation, AVX2, SME
Release date	Q2/2013	Q2/2024
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of AMD GX-420CA is 3.8 stars (6 ratings), while Apple M4 has received 4.2 stars (1056 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

AMD GX-420CA
4C / 4T · 2.00 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M4
9C / 9T · 0.91 - 4.46 GHz

★★★★★