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Apple A12Z Bionic vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900

Last updated: 2026-07-01

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 64 %

Apple A12Z Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 9 5900

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 35 %

Apple A12Z Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 9 5900

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

991 pts

12C / 24T · 4.70 GHz

1,622 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,539 pts

12C / 24T · 4.10 GHz

20,955 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,351

12C / 24T · 4.70 GHz

2,130

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,798

12C / 24T · 4.10 GHz

9,740

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

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,124

12C / 24T · 4.70 GHz

1,688

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

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,718

12C / 24T · 4.10 GHz

13,874

More benchmarks

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 entries

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Monero Hashrate
94 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	AMD Ryzen 9 5900
Family	Apple A series (27)	AMD Ryzen 9 (43)
CPU group	Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)	AMD Ryzen 5000 (17)
Architecture	A12	Vermeer (Zen 3)
Technology	7 nm	7 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Desktop
Socket		AM4 (PGA 1331)
Predecessor	Apple A10X Fusion	AMD Ryzen 9 3900
Successor		AMD Ryzen 9 7900

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	AMD Ryzen 9 5900
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	12 / 24
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	4x Vortex 2.49 GHz	12x 3.00 - 4.70 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Tempest 1.59 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB	6.00 MB
L3-Cache		64.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✓

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	AMD Ryzen 9 5900
GPU name	Apple A12Z	no iGPU
GPU frequency	1.13 GHz
CUs / Shader	32 / 512	/
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	1
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB
Technology	7 nm
Release date	Q1/2020

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	AMD Ryzen 9 5900
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	AMD Ryzen 9 5900
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)	DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	6 GB	128 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe		4.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth		39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	AMD Ryzen 9 5900
TDP	15 W	65 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		95 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	AMD Ryzen 9 5900
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	Q1/2020	Q2/2021
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 A12Z Bionic is 4.2 stars (87 ratings), while AMD Ryzen 9 5900 has received 4.3 stars (15 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A12Z Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★

AMD Ryzen 9 5900
12C / 24T · 3.00 - 4.70 GHz

★★★★★