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Apple A14 Bionic vs AMD Ryzen 9 3900X

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Apple A14 Bionic
Rank 2 - 82 %
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
Multi-core performance
Rank 2 - 35 %
Apple A14 Bionic
Rank 1 - 100 %
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

Apple A14 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.00 GHz
2,072
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
12C / 24T · 4.60 GHz
1,714
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Apple A14 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.00 GHz
4,689
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
12C / 24T · 4.00 GHz
10,689
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

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

Apple A14 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.00 GHz
1,590
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
12C / 24T · 4.60 GHz
1,300
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

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

Apple A14 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.00 GHz
4,247
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
12C / 24T · 4.00 GHz
12,454

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Apple A14 BionicAMD Ryzen 9 3900X
FamilyApple A series (27)AMD Ryzen 9 (43)
CPU groupApple A14 (1)AMD Ryzen 3000 (15)
ArchitectureA14 (Firestorm/Icestorm)Matisse (Zen 2)
Technology5 nm7 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletDesktop
SocketAM4 (PGA 1331)
PredecessorApple A13 Bionic
SuccessorApple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)AMD Ryzen 9 5900X

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen
Apple A14 BionicAMD Ryzen 9 3900X
CPU Cores / Threads6 / 612 / 24
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)normal
Core Cluster 1: 2x Firestorm
3.00 GHz
12x
3.80 - 4.60 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 4x Icestorm
1.82 GHz
L2-Cache12.00 MB6.00 MB
L3-Cache16.00 MB64.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen
Apple A14 BionicAMD Ryzen 9 3900X
GPU nameApple A14no iGPU
GPU frequency1.46 GHz
CUs / Shader16 / 256 /
Raytracing
Max. displays3
Max. GPU Memory6 GB
Technology5 nm
Release dateQ3/2020

NPU AI performance

Wischen
Apple A14 BionicAMD Ryzen 9 3900X
AI hardwareApple Neural Engine
AI specifications16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen
Apple A14 BionicAMD Ryzen 9 3900X
MemoryLPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory6 GB128 GB
Memory channels12
ECCNoYes
PCIe4.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen
Apple A14 BionicAMD Ryzen 9 3900X
TDP7.25 W105 W
TDP (PL2)142 W
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.95 °C

Technical details

Wischen
Apple A14 BionicAMD Ryzen 9 3900X
Chip designChipletChiplet
AES-NI
Operating systemsiOSWindows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction setArmv8-A (64 bit)x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensionsSSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
Release dateQ3/2020Q3/2019
Release price499 $
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

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Apple A14 Bionic
Apple A14 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.00 GHz
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
12C / 24T · 3.80 - 4.60 GHz

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