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Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU) vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
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Benchmarks
Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks
Single-core performance
Multi-core performance
Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance
Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
100 %
6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
61 %
6C / 12T · 4.00 GHz
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance
Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
100 %
6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
91 %
6C / 12T · 3.40 GHz
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance
Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
100 %
6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
65 %
6C / 12T · 4.00 GHz
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance
6C / 6T · 3.23 GHz
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
100 %
6C / 12T · 3.40 GHz
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
100 %
Apple A15 (5 GPU Cores)
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
94 %
AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 (Renoir)
More benchmarks
Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries
427 entries
Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries
422 entries
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
Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries
666 entries
Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries
2,512 entries
Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries
615 entries
Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries
2,483 entries
FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries
2,219 entries
AnTuTu 10 Benchmark
25 entries
25 entries
AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 entries
90 entries
Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries
213 entries
PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries
2,504 entries
CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries
250 entries
CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries
751 entries
V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries
251 entries
AI performance (NPU)
218 entries
218 entries
Specifications
At a glance
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Wischen
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Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU) | AMD Ryzen 5 5500U |
|---|---|---|
| Family | Apple A series (27) | AMD Ryzen 5 (100) |
| CPU group | Apple A15 (2) | AMD Ryzen 5000U (Lucienne) (3) |
| Architecture | A15 | Lucienne (Zen 2) |
| Technology | 5 nm | 7 nm |
| Segment | Smartphone / Tablet | Notebook |
| Socket | FP6 | |
| Predecessor | Apple A14 Bionic | |
| Successor | Apple A16 Bionic | AMD Ryzen 5 5625U |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
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Wischen
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Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU) | AMD Ryzen 5 5500U |
|---|---|---|
| CPU Cores / Threads | 6 / 6 | 6 / 12 |
| Hyperthreading / SMT | ✗ | ✓ |
| Core architecture | hybrid (big.LITTLE) | normal |
| Core Cluster 1: | 2x Avalanche 3.23 GHz |
6x 2.10 - 4.00 GHz |
| Core Cluster 2: | 4x Blizzard 2.02 GHz |
|
| L2-Cache | 16.00 MB | |
| L3-Cache | 32.00 MB | 8.00 MB |
| Overclocking | ✗ | ✗ |
Integrated graphics (iGPU)
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Wischen
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Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU) | AMD Ryzen 5 5500U |
|---|---|---|
| GPU name | Apple A15 (5 GPU Cores) | AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 (Renoir) |
| GPU frequency | 1.34 GHz | 0.40 - 1.80 GHz |
| CUs / Shader | 20 / 640 | 7 / 448 |
| Raytracing | ✗ | ✗ |
| Max. displays | 3 | 3 |
| Max. GPU Memory | 6 GB | 2 GB |
| Technology | 5 nm | 7 nm |
| Release date | Q3/2021 | Q1/2020 |
NPU AI performance
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Wischen
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Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU) | AMD Ryzen 5 5500U |
|---|---|---|
| AI hardware | Apple Neural Engine | |
| AI specifications | 16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS | |
| NPU + CPU + iGPU |
Memory & PCIe
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Wischen
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Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU) | AMD Ryzen 5 5500U |
|---|---|---|
| Memory | LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s) | LPDDR4-4266 (51.2 GB/s) DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s) |
| Max. Memory | 6 GB | 32 GB |
| Memory channels | 1 | 2 |
| ECC | No | Yes |
| PCIe | 3.0 x 12 | |
| PCIe Bandwidth | 11.8 GB/s |
Thermal Management
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Wischen
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Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU) | AMD Ryzen 5 5500U |
|---|---|---|
| TDP | 10 W | 15 W |
| TDP (PL2) | ||
| TDP up | 25 W | |
| TDP down | 10 W | |
| T. junction max. | 105 °C |
Technical details
|
Wischen
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Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU) | AMD Ryzen 5 5500U |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Q3/2021 | Q1/2021 |
| Release price | ||
| Documents | Technical data sheet |
User Reviews
Your rating
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