Apple A16 Bionic vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Apple A series AMD Ryzen
• CPU group
  Apple A16 AMD Ryzen 5000
• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server
• Generation
  16 4
• Predecessor
  Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU) AMD Ryzen 5 4600H

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• CPU Cores / Threads
  6 / 6 6 / 12
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) normal
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No Yes

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

• GPU name
  Apple A16 (5 GPU Cores) no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  0.70 GHz --
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  160 --
• Shader
  1280 --
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB --
• Max. displays
  3 --
• Generation
  13 --
• Technology
  4 nm --
• Release date
  Q3/2022 --

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

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode No
• h264
  Decode / Encode No
• VP8
  Decode / Encode No
• VP9
  Decode / Encode No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 5 5600 and Apple A16 Bionic. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR5-6400 DDR4-3200
• Max. Memory
  6 GB 64 GB
• Memory channels
  1 (Single Channel) 2
• Bandwidth
  51.2 GB/s 51.2 GB/s
• ECC
  No No
• PCIe
  4.0 x 20
• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Apple A16 Bionic and AMD Ryzen 5 5600 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  8.5 W 65 W
• TDP down
  -- 45 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 95 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Apple A16 Bionic and Apple A16 Bionic, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Technology
  4 nm 7 nm
• Socket
  N/A AM4
• L2-Cache
  20.00 MB 3.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  24.00 MB 32.00 MB
• Architecture
  A16 Vermeer (Zen 3)
• Virtualization
  None AMD-V, SVM
• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• Release date
  Q3/2022 Q2/2022
• Documents
  -- Technical data sheet