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Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU) vs AMD Ryzen 5 8640U

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 2 - 97 %
Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
Rank 1 - 100 %
AMD Ryzen 5 8640U
Multi-core performance
Rank 2 - 58 %
Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
Rank 1 - 100 %
AMD Ryzen 5 8640U
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz
2,370
AMD Ryzen 5 8640U
6C / 12T · 4.90 GHz
2,340
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz
5,726
AMD Ryzen 5 8640U
6C / 12T · 3.50 GHz
9,197
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

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

Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz
1,745
AMD Ryzen 5 8640U
6C / 12T · 4.90 GHz
1,869
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

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

Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz
4,777
AMD Ryzen 5 8640U
6C / 12T · 3.50 GHz
8,853
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
Apple A15 (4 GPU Cores)
1,370
AMD Ryzen 5 8640U
AMD Radeon 760M
2,663

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)AMD Ryzen 5 8640U
FamilyApple A series (27)AMD Ryzen 5 (100)
CPU groupApple A15 (2)AMD Ryzen 8040 (22)
ArchitectureA15Hawk Point (Zen 4)
Technology5 nm4 nm
SegmentSmartphone / TabletNotebook
SocketFP8
PredecessorAMD Ryzen 5 7640U
SuccessorApple A16 Bionic (5-CPU 4-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen
Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)AMD Ryzen 5 8640U
CPU Cores / Threads6 / 66 / 12
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturehybrid (big.LITTLE)normal
Core Cluster 1: 2x Avalanche
3.23 GHz
6x Zen 4
3.50 - 4.90 GHz
Core Cluster 2: 4x Blizzard
2.02 GHz
L2-Cache16.00 MB6.00 MB
L3-Cache32.00 MB16.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen
Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)AMD Ryzen 5 8640U
GPU nameApple A15 (4 GPU Cores)AMD Radeon 760M
GPU frequency1.34 GHz0.80 - 2.60 GHz
CUs / Shader16 / 5128 / 512
Raytracing
Max. displays34
Max. GPU Memory6 GB32 GB
Technology5 nm4 nm
Release dateQ3/2021Q1/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen
Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)AMD Ryzen 5 8640U
AI hardwareApple Neural Engine
AI specifications16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen
Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)AMD Ryzen 5 8640U
MemoryLPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 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 channels12
ECCNoNo
PCIe4.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen
Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)AMD Ryzen 5 8640U
TDP10 W28 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up30 W
TDP down15 W
T. junction max.100 °C

Technical details

Wischen
Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)AMD Ryzen 5 8640U
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 dateQ3/2021Q1/2024
Release price
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

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Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
Apple A15 Bionic (4-GPU)
6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz
AMD Ryzen 5 8640U
AMD Ryzen 5 8640U
6C / 12T · 3.50 - 4.90 GHz

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