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Apple A12 Bionic vs AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

Last updated: 2026-06-05

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 97 %

Apple A12 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 54 %

Apple A12 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

1,286

6C / 6T · 4.00 GHz

1,407

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

2,353

6C / 6T · 3.80 GHz

4,620

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

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

1,116

6C / 6T · 4.00 GHz

1,082

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

6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

2,731

6C / 6T · 3.80 GHz

4,097

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12

576

AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Renoir)

1,152

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 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 8 Benchmark
118 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
Family	Apple A series (27)	AMD Ryzen 5 (100)
CPU group	Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)	AMD Ryzen 4000U (11)
Architecture	A12	Renoir (Zen 2)
Technology	7 nm	7 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Notebook
Socket		FP6
Predecessor	Apple A11 Bionic
Successor	Apple A13 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	6 / 6
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	2x Vortex 2.49 GHz	6x 2.30 - 4.00 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Tempest 1.59 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB
L3-Cache		8.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
GPU name	Apple A12	AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Renoir)
GPU frequency	1.13 GHz	0.40 - 1.50 GHz
CUs / Shader	16 / 256	6 / 384
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	1	3
Max. GPU Memory	4 GB	2 GB
Technology	7 nm	7 nm
Release date	Q3/2018	Q1/2020

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)	LPDDR4-4266 (51.2 GB/s) DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	4 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	1	2
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe		3.0 x 12
PCIe Bandwidth		11.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
TDP	6 W	15 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up		25 W
TDP down		10 W
T. junction max.		105 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A12 Bionic	AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
Chip design	Chiplet	Chiplet
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	iOS	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions		SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
Release date	Q3/2018	Q1/2020
Release price
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple A12 Bionic is 3.4 stars (106 ratings), while AMD Ryzen 5 4500U has received 4.0 stars (77 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★

AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
6C / 6T · 2.30 - 4.00 GHz

★★★★★