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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D vs Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-06-07

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 9 9950X3D

Rank 2 - 69 %

Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

Rank 2 - 26 %

Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

16C / 32T · 5.70 GHz

3,437

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

2,370

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

16C / 32T · 5.00 GHz

22,115

6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

5,726

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

AMD Radeon Graphics (Raphael)

563

Apple A15 (5 GPU Cores)

1,713

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

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

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 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 Ryzen 9 9950X3D	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
Family	AMD Ryzen 9 (43)	Apple A series (27)
CPU group	AMD Ryzen 9000 (17)	Apple A15 (2)
Architecture	Granite Ridge (Zen 5)	A15
Technology	4 nm	5 nm
Segment	Desktop	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket	AM5 (LGA 1718)
Predecessor	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D	Apple A14 Bionic
Successor		Apple A16 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	16 / 32	6 / 6
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	16x Zen 5 4.30 - 5.70 GHz	2x Avalanche 3.23 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		4x Blizzard 2.02 GHz
L2-Cache	16.00 MB	16.00 MB
L3-Cache	128.00 MB	32.00 MB
Overclocking	✓	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
GPU name	AMD Radeon Graphics (Raphael)	Apple A15 (5 GPU Cores)
GPU frequency	0.40 - 2.20 GHz	1.34 GHz
CUs / Shader	2 / 128	20 / 640
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	8 GB	6 GB
Technology	5 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q3/2022	Q3/2021

NPU AI performance

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
Memory	DDR5-5600 (89.6 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory	192 GB	6 GB
Memory channels	2	1
ECC	Yes	No
PCIe	5.0 x 24
PCIe Bandwidth	94.5 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
TDP	170 W	10 W
TDP (PL2)	230 W
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	95 °C

Technical details

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
Chip design	Chiplet	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓	✗
Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	iOS
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512
Release date	Q1/2025	Q3/2021
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D is 3.0 stars (646 ratings), while Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU) has received 4.2 stars (199 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D
16C / 32T · 4.30 - 5.70 GHz

★★★★★

Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz

★★★★★