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Apple A12X Bionic vs AMD Ryzen Z1

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 2 - 62 %
Apple A12X Bionic
Rank 1 - 100 %
AMD Ryzen Z1
Multi-core performance
Rank 2 - 61 %
Apple A12X Bionic
Rank 1 - 100 %
AMD Ryzen Z1
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

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

Apple A12X Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
1,124
AMD Ryzen Z1
AMD Ryzen Z1 100 %
6C / 12T · 4.90 GHz
1,821
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

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

Apple A12X Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
4,718
AMD Ryzen Z1
AMD Ryzen Z1 100 %
6C / 12T · 3.50 GHz
7,706
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12X Bionic
Apple A12X
1,008
AMD Ryzen Z1
AMD Ryzen Z1 100 %
AMD Radeon 740M
1,280

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Apple A12X BionicAMD Ryzen Z1
FamilyApple A series (27)AMD Ryzen Z1 (2)
CPU groupApple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)AMD Ryzen 7040 (21)
ArchitectureA12Phoenix (Zen 4)
Technology7 nm4 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletNotebook
SocketFP8
PredecessorApple A10X Fusion
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen
Apple A12X BionicAMD Ryzen Z1
CPU Cores / Threads8 / 86 / 12
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)normal
Core Cluster 1: 4x Vortex
2.49 GHz
6x Zen 4
3.50 - 4.90 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 4x Tempest
1.59 GHz
L2-Cache8.00 MB6.00 MB
L3-Cache16.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen
Apple A12X BionicAMD Ryzen Z1
GPU nameApple A12XAMD Radeon 740M
GPU frequency1.13 GHz0.80 - 2.50 GHz
CUs / Shader28 / 4484 / 256
Raytracing
Max. displays14
Max. GPU Memory6 GB32 GB
Technology7 nm4 nm
Release dateQ3/2018Q3/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen
Apple A12X BionicAMD Ryzen Z1
AI hardwareApple Neural Engine
AI specifications8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen
Apple A12X BionicAMD Ryzen Z1
MemoryLPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)
LPDDR5X-7500 (120.0 GB/s)
LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)
DDR5-5600 (89.6 GB/s)
DDR5-4800 (76.8 GB/s)
Max. Memory6 GB256 GB
Memory channels22
ECCNoYes
PCIe4.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen
Apple A12X BionicAMD Ryzen Z1
TDP15 W15 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up30 W
TDP down15 W
T. junction max.100 °C

Technical details

Wischen
Apple A12X BionicAMD Ryzen Z1
Chip designChipletMonolithic
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOSWindows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction setArmv8-A (64 bit)x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensionsSSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512
Release dateQ3/2018Q3/2023
Release price
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

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Apple A12X Bionic
Apple A12X Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
AMD Ryzen Z1
AMD Ryzen Z1
6C / 12T · 3.50 - 4.90 GHz

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Apple A12X Bionic
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