Apple A12X Bionic vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G Benchmark, comparison and differences


Apple A12X Bionic		AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G
CPU comparison Apple A12X Bionic or AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results. The Apple A12X Bionic has 8 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.49 GHz. Up to 6 GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The Apple A12X Bionic was released in Q3/2018. The AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G has 6 cores with 12 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.30 GHz. The CPU supports up to 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G was released in Q3/2020.

Apple A series (22)	Family	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO (28)
Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)	CPU group	AMD Ryzen 4000G (22)
12	Generation	3
A12	Architecture	Renoir (Zen 2)
Mobile	Segment	Desktop / Server
Apple A10X Fusion	Predecessor	--
--	Successor	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency The Apple A12X Bionic is a 8 core processor with a clock frequency of 2.49 GHz. The AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G has 6 CPU cores with a clock frequency of 3.70 GHz (4.30 GHz).
Apple A12X Bionic	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G
8	Cores	6
8	Threads	12
hybrid (big.LITTLE)	Core architecture	normal
No	Hyperthreading	Yes
No	Overclocking ?	Yes
2.49 GHz 4x Vortex	A-Core	3.70 GHz (4.30 GHz)
1.59 GHz 4x Tempest	B-Core	--
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.
Apple A12X Bionic	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G
Apple Neural Engine	AI hardware	--
8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS	AI specifications	--

Internal Graphics The integrated graphics unit of a processor is not only responsible for the pure image output on the system, but can also significantly increase the efficiency of the system with the support of modern video codecs.
Apple A12X	GPU	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 (Renoir)
1.13 GHz	GPU frequency	0.40 GHz
--	GPU (Turbo)	1.90 GHz
9	GPU Generation	9
7 nm	Technology	7 nm
1	Max. displays	3
28	Compute units	7
448	Shader	448
No	Hardware Raytracing	No
No	Frame Generation	No
6 GB	Max. GPU Memory	2 GB
--	DirectX Version	12

Hardware codec support A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.
Apple A12X	GPU	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 (Renoir)
Decode / Encode	Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode	Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode	Codec h264	Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode	Codec VP9	Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode	Codec VP8	Decode / Encode
No	Codec AV1	No
Decode	Codec AVC	Decode / Encode
Decode	Codec VC-1	Decode
Decode / Encode	Codec JPEG	Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe The Apple A12X Bionic supports a maximum of 6 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G can connect up to 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels.
Apple A12X Bionic	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G
LPDDR4X-4266	Memory	DDR4-3200
6 GB	Max. Memory	64 GB
2 (Dual Channel)	Memory channels	2 (Dual Channel)
68.2 GB/s	Max. Bandwidth	51.2 GB/s
No	ECC	Yes
8.00 MB	L2 Cache	--
--	L3 Cache	8.00 MB
--	PCIe version	3.0
--	PCIe lanes	12
--	PCIe Bandwidth	11.8 GB/s
Thermal Management The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of a processor specifies the required cooling solution. The Apple A12X Bionic has a TDP of 15 W, that of the AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G is 65 W.
Apple A12X Bionic	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G
15 W	TDP (PL1 / PBP)	65 W
--	TDP (PL2)	--
--	TDP up	--
--	TDP down	45 W
--	Tjunction max.	100 °C
Technical details The Apple A12X Bionic has a 8.00 MB cache, while the AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G cache has a total of 8.00 MB.
Apple A12X Bionic	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G
7 nm	Technology	7 nm
Chiplet	Chip design	Monolithic
Armv8-A (64 bit)	Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)
--	ISA extensions	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
--	Socket	AM4 (PGA 1331)
None	Virtualization	AMD-V, SVM
No	AES-NI	Yes
iOS	Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Q3/2018	Release date	Q3/2020
--	Release price	209 $

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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 3 CPU benchmarks

Apple A12X Bionic (86%)

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G (100%)

⌀ Multi core performance in 4 CPU benchmarks

Apple A12X Bionic (67%)

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Apple A12X Bionic 8C 8T @ 2.49 GHz	991 (79%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G 6C 12T @ 4.30 GHz	1262 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Apple A12X Bionic 8C 8T @ 2.49 GHz	4539 (49%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G 6C 12T @ 4.15 GHz	9258 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Apple A12X Bionic 8C 8T @ 2.49 GHz	1124 (94%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G 6C 12T @ 4.30 GHz	1194 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Apple A12X Bionic 8C 8T @ 2.49 GHz	4718 (73%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G 6C 12T @ 4.15 GHz	6507 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.


	Apple A12X Bionic 8C 8T @ 2.49 GHz	1341 (86%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G 6C 12T @ 4.30 GHz	1562 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.


	Apple A12X Bionic 8C 8T @ 2.49 GHz	4745 (79%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G 6C 12T @ 4.15 GHz	6017 (100%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.


	Apple A12X Bionic Apple A12X @ 1.13 GHz	1008 (59%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 (Renoir) @ 1.90 GHz	1702 (100%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.


	Apple A12X Bionic 8C 8T @ 2.49 GHz	10921 (67%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G 6C 12T @ 4.15 GHz	16335 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Apple A12X Bionic 8C 8T @ 2.49 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G 6C 12T @ 4.30 GHz	490 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Apple A12X Bionic 8C 8T @ 2.49 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G 6C 12T @ 4.15 GHz	3616 (100%)

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark

The AnTuTu 8 Benchmark measures the performance of a SoC. AnTuTu benchmarks the CPU, GPU, Memory as well as the UX (User Experience) by simulating browser and app usage. AnTuTu can benchmark any ARM CPU that runs under Android or iOS. Devices may not be directly compareable if the benchmark has been performed under different operating systems.

In the AnTuTu 8 benchmark, the single-core performance of a processor is only slightly weighted. The evaluation consists of the multi-core performance of the processor, the speed of the RAM and the performance of the internal graphics.


	Apple A12X Bionic 8C 8T @ 2.49 GHz	713640 (100%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G 6C 12T @ 3.70 GHz	0 (0%)

Blender 3.1 Benchmark

In the Blender Benchmark 3.1, the scenes "monster", "junkshop" and "classroom" are rendered and the time required by the system is measured. In our benchmark we test the CPU and not the graphics card. Blender 3.1 was presented as a standalone version in March 2022.


	Apple A12X Bionic 8C 8T @ 2.49 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G 6C 12T @ 4.15 GHz	137 (100%)

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)

Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.


	Apple A12X Bionic 8C 8T @ 2.49 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G 6C 12T @ 4.15 GHz	230 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Single-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.


	Apple A12X Bionic 8C 8T @ 2.49 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G 6C 12T @ 4.15 GHz	507 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.


	Apple A12X Bionic 8C 8T @ 2.49 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G 6C 12T @ 3.70 GHz	4163 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Apple A12X Bionic 8C 8T @ 2.49 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G 6C 12T @ 4.30 GHz	191 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Apple A12X Bionic 8C 8T @ 2.49 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G 6C 12T @ 4.15 GHz	1516 (100%)

Performance for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. The performance is given in the number (trillions) of arithmetic operations per second (TOPS).


	Apple A12X Bionic 8C 8T @ 2.49 GHz	5 (100%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G 6C 12T @ 3.70 GHz	0 (0%)

Devices using this processor
Apple A12X Bionic	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G
Apple iPad Pro 2018	Unknown


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CPU comparison with benchmarks

CPU comparison

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Internal Graphics

Hardware codec support

Memory & PCIe

Thermal Management

Technical details