Share link|

Submit benchmark

Comparison Search Benchmarks CPUs Leaderboards CPU News & Articles GPU comparison Apple product comparison

Deutsch English Español Français Italiano Japanese

Apple A16 Bionic vs AMD Ryzen 9 8945H

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 - 96 %

Apple A16 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 9 8945H

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 49 %

Apple A16 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 9 8945H

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

2,531

8C / 16T · 5.20 GHz

2,617

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

6,299

8C / 16T · 4.00 GHz

12,447

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

6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

1,890

8C / 16T · 5.20 GHz

1,974

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

6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

5,465

8C / 16T · 4.00 GHz

11,600

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A16 (5 GPU Cores)

1,789

AMD Radeon 780M

4,357

AI performance (NPU)

6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

17.0 TOPS

8C / 16T · 4.00 GHz

16.0 TOPS

More benchmarks

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

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 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

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	AMD Ryzen 9 8945H
Family	Apple A series (27)	AMD Ryzen 9 (43)
CPU group	Apple A16 (2)	AMD Ryzen 8040 (22)
Architecture	A16	Hawk Point (Zen 4)
Technology	4 nm	4 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Notebook
Socket		FP8
Predecessor	Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU)
Successor	Apple A17 Pro	AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	AMD Ryzen 9 8945H
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 4 4.00 - 5.20 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Sawtooth 2.02 GHz
L2-Cache	20.00 MB	8.00 MB
L3-Cache	24.00 MB	16.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	AMD Ryzen 9 8945H
GPU name	Apple A16 (5 GPU Cores)	AMD Radeon 780M
GPU frequency	0.40 - 1.34 GHz	0.80 - 2.80 GHz
CUs / Shader	20 / 640	12 / 768
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays	3	4
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB	32 GB
Technology	4 nm	4 nm
Release date	Q3/2022	Q1/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	AMD Ryzen 9 8945H
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	AMD Ryzen™ AI
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 17 TOPS	AMD Ryzen™ AI (XDNA) @ 16 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU		39 TOPS

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	AMD Ryzen 9 8945H
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (51.2 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. Memory	6 GB	256 GB
Memory channels	1	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		4.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth		39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	AMD Ryzen 9 8945H
TDP	10 W	45 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up		54 W
TDP down		35 W
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A16 Bionic	AMD Ryzen 9 8945H
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
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	Q1/2024
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 A16 Bionic is 4.1 stars (254 ratings), while AMD Ryzen 9 8945H has received 2.2 stars (75 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A16 Bionic
6C / 6T · 3.46 GHz

★★★★★

AMD Ryzen 9 8945H
8C / 16T · 4.00 - 5.20 GHz

★★★★★