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Apple A16 Bionic vs AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Last updated: 2026-06-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 77 %

Apple A16 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 35 %

Apple A16 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

2,531

8C / 16T · 5.25 GHz

3,305

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

6,299

8C / 16T · 5.20 GHz

18,221

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A16 (5 GPU Cores)

1,789

AMD Radeon Graphics (Raphael)

563

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

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

AnTuTu 10 Benchmark
25 entries

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
Family	Apple A series (27)	AMD Ryzen 7 (79)
CPU group	Apple A16 (2)	AMD Ryzen 9000 (17)
Architecture	A16	Granite Ridge (Zen 5)
Technology	4 nm	4 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Desktop
Socket		AM5 (LGA 1718)
Predecessor	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Successor	Apple A17 Pro

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	8 / 16
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	2x Everest 3.46 GHz	8x Zen 5 4.70 - 5.25 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Sawtooth 2.02 GHz
L2-Cache	20.00 MB	8.00 MB
L3-Cache	24.00 MB	96.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
GPU name	Apple A16 (5 GPU Cores)	AMD Radeon Graphics (Raphael)
GPU frequency	0.40 - 1.34 GHz	0.40 - 2.20 GHz
CUs / Shader	20 / 640	2 / 128
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB	8 GB
Technology	4 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q3/2022	Q3/2022

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 17 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (51.2 GB/s)	DDR5-5600 (89.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	6 GB	192 GB
Memory channels	1	2
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe		5.0 x 24
PCIe Bandwidth		94.5 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
TDP	10 W	120 W
TDP (PL2)		162 W
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		95 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
Chip design	Chiplet	Chiplet
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	iOS	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	Armv8.6-A (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions		SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512
Release date	Q3/2022	Q4/2024
Release price		479 $
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple A16 Bionic is 4.1 stars (254 ratings), while AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D has received 4.3 stars (611 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A16 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

★★★★★

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
8C / 16T · 4.70 - 5.25 GHz

★★★★★