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AMD Ryzen 5 8500G vs Apple A16 Bionic (5-CPU 4-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-07-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Rank 2 - 96 %

Apple A16 Bionic (5-CPU 4-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Rank 2 - 55 %

Apple A16 Bionic (5-CPU 4-GPU)

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 12T · 5.00 GHz

2,686

5C / 5T · 3.46 GHz

2,573

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 12T · 4.45 GHz

11,063

5C / 5T · 3.46 GHz

6,120

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

AMD Radeon 740M

1,434

Apple A16 (4 GPU Cores)

1,431

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 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

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 5 8500G	Apple A16 Bionic (5-CPU 4-GPU)
Family	AMD Ryzen 5 (100)	Apple A series (27)
CPU group	AMD Ryzen 8000G (14)	Apple A16 (2)
Architecture	Phoenix (Zen 4)	A16
Technology	4 nm	4 nm
Segment	Desktop	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket	AM5 (LGA 1718)
Predecessor		Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 5 8500G	Apple A16 Bionic (5-CPU 4-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 12	5 / 5
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x Zen 4 4.10 - 5.00 GHz	2x Everest 3.46 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Zen 4c 3.20 - 3.70 GHz	3x Sawtooth 2.02 GHz
L2-Cache	6.00 MB	20.00 MB
L3-Cache	16.00 MB	24.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 5 8500G	Apple A16 Bionic (5-CPU 4-GPU)
GPU name	AMD Radeon 740M	Apple A16 (4 GPU Cores)
GPU frequency	0.80 - 2.80 GHz	0.40 - 1.34 GHz
CUs / Shader	4 / 256	16 / 512
Raytracing	✓	✗
Max. displays	4	3
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	6 GB
Technology	4 nm	4 nm
Release date	Q3/2023	Q1/2025

NPU AI performance

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 5 8500G	Apple A16 Bionic (5-CPU 4-GPU)
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 17 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 5 8500G	Apple A16 Bionic (5-CPU 4-GPU)
Memory	DDR5-5200 (83.2 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (51.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	256 GB	6 GB
Memory channels	2	1
ECC	No	No
PCIe	4.0 x 14
PCIe Bandwidth	27.6 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 5 8500G	Apple A16 Bionic (5-CPU 4-GPU)
TDP	65 W	10 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down	45 W
T. junction max.	95 °C

Technical details

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 5 8500G	Apple A16 Bionic (5-CPU 4-GPU)
Chip design	Monolithic	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓	✗
Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	iOS
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv8.6-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512
Release date	Q1/2024	Q1/2025
Release price	179 $
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 Ryzen 5 8500G is 4.4 stars (108 ratings), while Apple A16 Bionic (5-CPU 4-GPU) has received 3.8 stars (19 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

AMD Ryzen 5 8500G
6C / 12T · 4.10 - 5.00 GHz

★★★★★

Apple A16 Bionic (5-CPU 4-GPU)
5C / 5T · 3.46 GHz

★★★★★