Follow us
Share link
Submit benchmark
VS
Apple A12 Bionic vs AMD Ryzen AI Max 390
Last updated:
Benchmarks
Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks
Single-core performance
Multi-core performance
Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance
Apple A12 Bionic
45 %
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
AMD Ryzen AI Max 390
100 %
12C / 24T · 5.00 GHz
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance
Apple A12 Bionic
14 %
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
AMD Ryzen AI Max 390
100 %
12C / 24T · 3.20 GHz
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
Apple A12 Bionic
3 %
Apple A12
AMD Ryzen AI Max 390
100 %
AMD Radeon 8050S Graphics
AI performance (NPU)
Apple A12 Bionic
10 %
6C / 6T · 2.49 GHz
AMD Ryzen AI Max 390
100 %
12C / 24T · 3.20 GHz
More benchmarks
Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries
427 entries
Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries
422 entries
Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries
690 entries
Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries
665 entries
Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries
1,989 entries
Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries
1,927 entries
Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries
2,512 entries
Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries
2,483 entries
FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries
2,219 entries
AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries
118 entries
PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries
2,504 entries
AI performance (NPU)
218 entries
218 entries
Specifications
At a glance
|
Wischen
|
Apple A12 Bionic | AMD Ryzen AI Max 390 |
|---|---|---|
| Family | Apple A series (27) | AMD Ryzen AI Max (3) |
| CPU group | Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3) | AMD Ryzen AI MAX 300 (7) |
| Architecture | A12 | Strix Halo (Zen 5) |
| Technology | 7 nm | 4 nm |
| Segment | Smartphone / Tablet | Notebook |
| Socket | FP11 | |
| Predecessor | Apple A11 Bionic | |
| Successor | Apple A13 Bionic |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
|
Wischen
|
Apple A12 Bionic | AMD Ryzen AI Max 390 |
|---|---|---|
| CPU Cores / Threads | 6 / 6 | 12 / 24 |
| Hyperthreading / SMT | ✗ | ✓ |
| Core architecture | hybrid (big.LITTLE) | normal |
| Core Cluster 1: | 2x Vortex 2.49 GHz |
12x Zen 5 3.20 - 5.00 GHz |
| Core Cluster 2: | 4x Tempest 1.59 GHz |
|
| L2-Cache | 8.00 MB | 12.00 MB |
| L3-Cache | 64.00 MB | |
| Overclocking | ✗ | ✗ |
Integrated graphics (iGPU)
|
Wischen
|
Apple A12 Bionic | AMD Ryzen AI Max 390 |
|---|---|---|
| GPU name | Apple A12 | AMD Radeon 8050S Graphics |
| GPU frequency | 1.13 GHz | 0.60 - 2.80 GHz |
| CUs / Shader | 16 / 256 | 32 / 2048 |
| Raytracing | ✗ | ✓ |
| Max. displays | 1 | 4 |
| Max. GPU Memory | 4 GB | 96 GB |
| Technology | 7 nm | 4 nm |
| Release date | Q3/2018 | Q2/2025 |
NPU AI performance
|
Wischen
|
Apple A12 Bionic | AMD Ryzen AI Max 390 |
|---|---|---|
| AI hardware | Apple Neural Engine | AMD Ryzen™ AI |
| AI specifications | 8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS | AMD Ryzen™ AI (XDNA 2) @ 50 TOPS |
| NPU + CPU + iGPU | 110 TOPS |
Memory & PCIe
|
Wischen
|
Apple A12 Bionic | AMD Ryzen AI Max 390 |
|---|---|---|
| Memory | LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s) | LPDDR5X-8000 (256.0 GB/s) |
| Max. Memory | 4 GB | 128 GB |
| Memory channels | 1 | 2 |
| ECC | No | No |
| PCIe | 4.0 x 16 | |
| PCIe Bandwidth | 31.5 GB/s |
Thermal Management
|
Wischen
|
Apple A12 Bionic | AMD Ryzen AI Max 390 |
|---|---|---|
| TDP | 6 W | 55 W |
| TDP (PL2) | ||
| TDP up | 120 W | |
| TDP down | 45 W | |
| T. junction max. | 100 °C |
Technical details
|
Wischen
|
Apple A12 Bionic | AMD Ryzen AI Max 390 |
|---|---|---|
| Chip design | Chiplet | Monolithic |
| 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,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512 | |
| Release date | Q3/2018 | Q2/2025 |
| 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 AI Max 390 has received 2.0 stars (73 ratings).
Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.
Most popular CPUs in both categories
1
Apple M5 Max (18-CPU 32-GPU)
18C / 18T · 4.61 GHz
2
Apple M5 Max (18-CPU 40-GPU)
18C / 18T · 4.61 GHz
3
Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
24C / 24T · 3.50 GHz
4
Apple M1 Ultra (64-GPU)
20C / 20T · 3.20 GHz
5
Apple M1 Ultra (48-GPU)
20C / 20T · 3.20 GHz
6
Apple M4 (8-CPU)
8C / 8T · 4.46 GHz
7
Apple M2 Ultra (60-GPU)
24C / 24T · 3.50 GHz
8
Apple A12 Bionic
6C / 6T · 0.00 GHz
9
AMD Ryzen AI Max 390
12C / 24T · 5.00 GHz
Popular Comparisons
