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Apple A12X Bionic vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U
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Benchmarks
Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks
Single-core performance
Multi-core performance
Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance
Apple A12X Bionic
100 %
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
4C / 8T · 3.70 GHz
Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance
Apple A12X Bionic
100 %
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
4C / 8T · 3.00 GHz
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance
Apple A12X Bionic
100 %
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
4C / 8T · 3.70 GHz
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance
Apple A12X Bionic
100 %
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
4C / 8T · 3.00 GHz
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
Apple A12X Bionic
82 %
Apple A12X
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U
100 %
AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Raven Ridge)
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
Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries
666 entries
Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries
2,512 entries
Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries
615 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
Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries
213 entries
PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries
2,504 entries
Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries
190 entries
CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries
751 entries
Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries
1,113 entries
Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries
1,110 entries
Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries
945 entries
Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries
941 entries
Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries
826 entries
Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries
837 entries
AI performance (NPU)
218 entries
218 entries
Specifications
At a glance
|
Wischen
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Apple A12X Bionic | AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U |
|---|---|---|
| Family | Apple A series (27) | AMD Ryzen 5 PRO (33) |
| CPU group | Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3) | AMD Ryzen 3000U (10) |
| Architecture | A12 | Picasso (Zen+) |
| Technology | 7 nm | 12 nm |
| Segment | Smartphone / Tablet | Notebook |
| Socket | FP5 | |
| Predecessor | Apple A10X Fusion | |
| Successor |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
|
Wischen
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Apple A12X Bionic | AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U |
|---|---|---|
| CPU Cores / Threads | 8 / 8 | 4 / 8 |
| Hyperthreading / SMT | ✗ | ✓ |
| Core architecture | hybrid (big.LITTLE) | normal |
| Core Cluster 1: | 4x Vortex 2.49 GHz |
4x 2.10 - 3.70 GHz |
| Core Cluster 2: | 4x Tempest 1.59 GHz |
|
| L2-Cache | 8.00 MB | |
| L3-Cache | 4.00 MB | |
| Overclocking | ✗ | ✗ |
Integrated graphics (iGPU)
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Wischen
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Apple A12X Bionic | AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U |
|---|---|---|
| GPU name | Apple A12X | AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Raven Ridge) |
| GPU frequency | 1.13 GHz | 1.20 GHz |
| CUs / Shader | 28 / 448 | 8 / 512 |
| Raytracing | ✗ | ✗ |
| Max. displays | 1 | 3 |
| Max. GPU Memory | 6 GB | 2 GB |
| Technology | 7 nm | 14 nm |
| Release date | Q3/2018 | Q1/2018 |
NPU AI performance
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Wischen
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Apple A12X Bionic | AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U |
|---|---|---|
| AI hardware | Apple Neural Engine | |
| AI specifications | 8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS | |
| NPU + CPU + iGPU |
Memory & PCIe
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Wischen
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Apple A12X Bionic | AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U |
|---|---|---|
| Memory | LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s) | DDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s) |
| Max. Memory | 6 GB | 32 GB |
| Memory channels | 2 | 2 |
| ECC | No | Yes |
| PCIe | 3.0 x 12 | |
| PCIe Bandwidth | 11.8 GB/s |
Thermal Management
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Wischen
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Apple A12X Bionic | AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U |
|---|---|---|
| TDP | 15 W | 15 W |
| TDP (PL2) | ||
| TDP up | 35 W | |
| TDP down | 12 W | |
| T. junction max. | 95 °C |
Technical details
|
Wischen
|
Apple A12X Bionic | AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Q1/2019 |
| Release price | ||
| Documents | Technical data sheet |
User Reviews
Your rating
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AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U
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8C / 8T · 0.00 GHz
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