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Apple A12Z Bionic vs AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS

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 - 66 %

Apple A12Z Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 43 %

Apple A12Z Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

991 pts

8C / 16T · 4.60 GHz

1,579 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,539 pts

8C / 16T · 3.80 GHz

13,977 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,351

8C / 16T · 4.60 GHz

2,040

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,798

8C / 16T · 3.80 GHz

9,768

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

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,124

8C / 16T · 4.60 GHz

1,640

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

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,718

8C / 16T · 3.80 GHz

10,094

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12Z

1,152

AMD Radeon 680M

3,686

More benchmarks

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 entries

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS
Family	Apple A series (27)	AMD Ryzen 9 (43)
CPU group	Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)	AMD Ryzen 6000H/7035H (20)
Architecture	A12	Rembrandt (Zen 3+)
Technology	7 nm	6 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Notebook
Socket		FP7
Predecessor	Apple A10X Fusion	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	8 / 16
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	4x Vortex 2.49 GHz	8x Zen 3+ 3.00 - 4.60 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Tempest 1.59 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB	4.00 MB
L3-Cache		16.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS
GPU name	Apple A12Z	AMD Radeon 680M
GPU frequency	1.13 GHz	2.00 - 2.40 GHz
CUs / Shader	32 / 512	12 / 768
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays	1	4
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB	8 GB
Technology	7 nm	6 nm
Release date	Q1/2020	Q1/2022

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)	DDR5-4800 (76.8 GB/s) LPDDR5-6400 (51.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	6 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		4.0 x 12
PCIe Bandwidth		23.6 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS
TDP	15 W	35 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up		54 W
TDP down
T. junction max.		95 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
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	Q1/2022
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 6900HS has received 4.9 stars (17 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A12Z Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★

AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS
8C / 16T · 3.00 - 4.60 GHz

★★★★★