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AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme vs Apple A12 Bionic

Last updated: 2026-06-01

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 Z1 Extreme

Rank 2 - 55 %

Apple A12 Bionic

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme

Rank 2 - 23 %

Apple A12 Bionic

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 16T · 5.10 GHz

2,446

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

1,286

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 16T · 3.30 GHz

10,726

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

2,353

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

8C / 16T · 5.10 GHz

1,917

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

1,116

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

8C / 16T · 3.30 GHz

9,977

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

2,731

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

AMD Radeon 780M

4,201

Apple A12

576

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

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme	Apple A12 Bionic
Family	AMD Ryzen Z1 (2)	Apple A series (27)
CPU group	AMD Ryzen 7040 (21)	Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)
Architecture	Phoenix (Zen 4)	A12
Technology	4 nm	7 nm
Segment	Notebook	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket	FP8
Predecessor		Apple A11 Bionic
Successor		Apple A13 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme	Apple A12 Bionic
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 16	6 / 6
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	8x Zen 4 3.30 - 5.10 GHz	2x Vortex 2.49 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		4x Tempest 1.59 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB	8.00 MB
L3-Cache	16.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme	Apple A12 Bionic
GPU name	AMD Radeon 780M	Apple A12
GPU frequency	0.80 - 2.70 GHz	1.13 GHz
CUs / Shader	12 / 768	16 / 256
Raytracing	✓	✗
Max. displays	4	1
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	4 GB
Technology	4 nm	7 nm
Release date	Q1/2023	Q3/2018

NPU AI performance

Wischen	AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme	Apple A12 Bionic
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme	Apple A12 Bionic
Memory	LPDDR5X-7500 (120.0 GB/s) LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s) DDR5-5600 (89.6 GB/s) DDR5-4800 (76.8 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory	256 GB	4 GB
Memory channels	2	1
ECC	Yes	No
PCIe	4.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth	39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme	Apple A12 Bionic
TDP	28 W	6 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up	30 W
TDP down	15 W
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme	Apple A12 Bionic
Chip design	Monolithic	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	Q2/2023	Q3/2018
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 Z1 Extreme is 4.4 stars (317 ratings), while Apple A12 Bionic has received 3.4 stars (106 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme
8C / 16T · 3.30 - 5.10 GHz

★★★★★

Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★