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Apple A12Z Bionic vs AMD A12-9720P
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Benchmarks
Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks
Single-core performance
Multi-core performance
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance
Apple A12Z Bionic
100 %
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
AMD A12-9720P
44 %
4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance
Apple A12Z Bionic
100 %
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz
AMD A12-9720P
27 %
4C / 4T · 2.90 GHz
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
Apple A12Z Bionic
100 %
Apple A12Z
AMD A12-9720P
68 %
AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge)
More benchmarks
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 9 Benchmark
90 entries
90 entries
AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries
118 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
AI performance (NPU)
218 entries
218 entries
Specifications
At a glance
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Wischen
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Apple A12Z Bionic | AMD A12-9720P |
|---|---|---|
| Family | Apple A series (27) | AMD A (112) |
| CPU group | Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3) | AMD A12-9700 (2) |
| Architecture | A12 | Excavator (Bristol Ridge) |
| Technology | 7 nm | 28 nm |
| Segment | Smartphone / Tablet | Notebook |
| Socket | FP4 | |
| Predecessor | Apple A10X Fusion | |
| Successor |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
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Wischen
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Apple A12Z Bionic | AMD A12-9720P |
|---|---|---|
| CPU Cores / Threads | 8 / 8 | 4 / 4 |
| Hyperthreading / SMT | ✗ | ✗ |
| Core architecture | hybrid (big.LITTLE) | normal |
| Core Cluster 1: | 4x Vortex 2.49 GHz |
4x Excavator 2.70 - 3.60 GHz |
| Core Cluster 2: | 4x Tempest 1.59 GHz |
|
| L2-Cache | 8.00 MB | 2.00 MB |
| L3-Cache | ||
| Overclocking | ✗ | ✗ |
Integrated graphics (iGPU)
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Wischen
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Apple A12Z Bionic | AMD A12-9720P |
|---|---|---|
| GPU name | Apple A12Z | AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge) |
| GPU frequency | 1.13 GHz | 0.76 GHz |
| CUs / Shader | 32 / 512 | 8 / 512 |
| Raytracing | ✗ | ✗ |
| Max. displays | 1 | 2 |
| Max. GPU Memory | 6 GB | 2 GB |
| Technology | 7 nm | 28 nm |
| Release date | Q1/2020 | Q2/2016 |
NPU AI performance
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Wischen
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Apple A12Z Bionic | AMD A12-9720P |
|---|---|---|
| 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 A12Z Bionic | AMD A12-9720P |
|---|---|---|
| Memory | LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s) | DDR4-1866 (29.9 GB/s) |
| Max. Memory | 6 GB | 64 GB |
| Memory channels | 2 | 2 |
| ECC | No | No |
| PCIe | 3.0 x 8 | |
| PCIe Bandwidth | 7.9 GB/s |
Thermal Management
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Wischen
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Apple A12Z Bionic | AMD A12-9720P |
|---|---|---|
| TDP | 15 W | 15 W |
| TDP (PL2) | ||
| TDP up | ||
| TDP down | ||
| T. junction max. | 90 °C |
Technical details
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Wischen
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Apple A12Z Bionic | AMD A12-9720P |
|---|---|---|
| Chip design | Chiplet | Unknown |
| AES-NI | ✗ | ✓ |
| Operating systems | iOS | |
| Instruction set | Armv8-A (64 bit) | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| ISA extensions | SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, FMA4 | |
| Release date | Q1/2020 | Q4/2016 |
| Release price | ||
| Documents |
User Reviews
Your rating
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AMD A12-9720P
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