Apple A15 Bionic vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server
• Family
  Apple A series AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  15 4
• CPU group
  Apple A15 AMD Ryzen 5000
• Predecessor
  Apple A14 Bionic 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.

• Frequency
  3.23 GHz 3.50 GHz
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) normal

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 A15 (5 GPU Cores) no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  1.80 GHz --
• GPU (Turbo)
  3.20 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  5 --
• Shader
  0 --
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB --
• Max. displays
  3 --
• Generation
  12 --
• Technology
  5 nm --
• Release date
  Q3/2021 --

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
• VP9
  Decode / Encode No
• VP8
  Decode / Encode No
• AV1
  Decode 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 A15 Bionic. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR4X-4266 DDR4-3200
• Max. Memory
  8 GB 64 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Apple A15 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 A15 Bionic and Apple A15 Bionic, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None AMD-V, SVM
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  4.00 MB 3.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  -- 32.00 MB
• Architecture
  A15 Vermeer (Zen 3)
• Technology
  5 nm 7 nm
• Socket
  N/A AM4
• Release date
  Q3/2021 Q2/2022