Apple A13 Bionic vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  Apple A13 AMD Ryzen 5000H
• Family
  Apple A series Ryzen
• Generation
  13 4
• Predecessor
  Apple A12 Bionic -
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Successor
  Apple A14 Bionic -
• Form Factor
  - Laptops / Desktops
• Series
  - Ryzen 5000 Series

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• A-Core
  2x Lightning -
• B-Core
  4x Thunder -
• Base Frequency
  1.8 GHz 3.3 GHz
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) normal
• CPU Cores
  6 8
• CPU Threads
  6 16
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  2.65 GHz 4.6 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
  2.65 GHz -
• Max. Boost Clock
  - 4.6 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  - 4.2 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• DirectX Version
  - 12
• Execution units
  4 8
• Generation
  10 9
• GPU Frequency
  1800 MHz 2100 MHz
• GPU name
  Apple A13 AMD Radeon Graphics
• GPU Turbo
  2700 MHz No turbo
• Max. displays
  1 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  4 GB 2 GB
• Release date
  Q3/2019 Q1/2020
• Shader
  384 512
• Technology
  7 nm 7 nm
• Graphics Cores
  - 8

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  Conflicting source values: Decode | Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX and Apple A13 Bionic. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Max. Memory
  4 GB 64 GB
• Memory channels
  1 2
• Memory type
  LPDDR4X-4266 DDR4 - Up to 3200 / LPDDR4 - Up to 4266
• PCIe lanes
  - 12
• PCIe version
  - 3.0
• PCIe
  - PCIe 3.0

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Apple A13 Bionic and AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  - 105 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  6 W 45 W
• TDP down
  - 35 W
• TDP up
  - 54 W
• Configurable TDP
  - 35-54 W
• Default TDP
  - 45+ W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Apple A13 Bionic and AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  A13 (Lightning / Thunder) Cezanne (Zen 3)
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  - SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  8 MB 4 MB
• L3-Cache
  - 16 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2019 2021-01-12
• Socket
  - FP6
• Technology
  7 nm TSMC 7nm FinFET
• Virtualization
  None AMD-V, SVM
• Codename
  - Cezanne
• Manufacturer product ID (tray)
  - 100-000000300
• Operating systems
  - Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition / RHEL x86 64-Bit / Ubuntu x86 64-Bit