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Apple M1 (7-GPU) vs AMD A12-9800

Last updated: 2026-06-02

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 (7-GPU)

Rank 2 - 39 %

AMD A12-9800

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 (7-GPU)

Rank 2 - 25 %

AMD A12-9800

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,503 pts

4C / 4T · 4.20 GHz

655 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,759 pts

4C / 4T · 3.80 GHz

1,979 pts

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

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,742

4C / 4T · 4.20 GHz

607

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

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,650

4C / 4T · 3.80 GHz

1,827

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M1 (7 Core)

2,290

AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge)

1,143

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

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

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	AMD A12-9800
Family	Apple M series (38)	AMD A (112)
CPU group	Apple M1 (9)	AMD A12-9800 (1)
Architecture	M1	Excavator (Bristol Ridge)
Technology	5 nm	28 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket		AM4 (PGA 1331)
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	AMD A12-9800
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	4x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz	4x Excavator 3.80 - 4.20 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz
L2-Cache	16.00 MB	2.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	AMD A12-9800
GPU name	Apple M1 (7 Core)	AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge)
GPU frequency	0.39 - 1.30 GHz	1.11 GHz
CUs / Shader	112 / 896	8 / 512
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	2
Max. GPU Memory	8 GB	2 GB
Technology	5 nm	28 nm
Release date	Q4/2020	Q2/2016

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	AMD A12-9800
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	AMD A12-9800
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)	DDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	16 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	4.0	3.0 x 8
PCIe Bandwidth		7.9 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	AMD A12-9800
TDP	18 W	65 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up	25 W
TDP down	10 W
T. junction max.		90 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	AMD A12-9800
Chip design	Monolithic	Unknown
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	macOS	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, FMA4
Release date	Q4/2020	Q3/2017
Release price
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User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple M1 (7-GPU) is 4.7 stars (71 ratings), while AMD A12-9800 has received 4.1 stars (12 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M1 (7-GPU)
8C / 8T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★

AMD A12-9800
4C / 4T · 3.80 - 4.20 GHz

★★★★★