AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 5945 vs Apple A9. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  AMD Ryzen 5 Apple A series
• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 5000U Apple A9/A9X
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  4 9
• Predecessor
  -- Apple A8
• Successor
  -- Apple A10 Fusion

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.

• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Frequency
  3.00 GHz 1.85 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.

• GPU name
  no iGPU Apple A9
• GPU frequency
  0.65 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  6
• Shader
  192
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 4 GB
• Max. displays
  1
• Generation
  6
• Technology
  16 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2015

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple A9 and AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 5945. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR4-3200 LPDDR4-3200
• Max. Memory
  64 GB 2 GB
• Memory channels
  2 (Dual Channel) 1
• ECC
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 5945 and Apple A9 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• Tjunction max.
  95 °C --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 5945 and AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 5945, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Technology
  7 nm 16 nm
• Socket
  AM4 (PGA 1331) N/A
• L2-Cache
  6.00 MB 3.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  64.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Cezanne (Zen 3) A9
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM None
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• Release date
  Q3/2022 Q3/2015
• Part Number
  100-000000831 --