Apple M5 (8-core GPU) vs AMD Athlon Gold 20

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CPU Apple M5 (8-core GPU) Apple · 2026-03

CPU AMD Athlon Gold 20 AMD · 2025-10

General Parameters

Release Date

Mar 2026

Oct 2025

Manufacturer

Apple

AMD

Type

Laptop

Laptop

Instruction Set

ARMv9

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Core Architecture

Apple M5

Mendocino

Integrated Graphics

Apple M5 GPU (8-core)

Radeon 610M

Generation

—

Athlon (Zen 2 (Mendocino))

Package

Transistor Count

28 billions

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Manufacturing Process

3 nm

6 nm

Socket

Apple M-Socket

AMD Socket FT6

Power Consumption

27 W

15 W

Peak Operating Temperature

100 °C

95°C

Foundry

—

TSMC

Die Size

—

100 mm²

Package

—

FT6

CPU Performance

Performance Cores

4

—

Performance Core Threads

4

—

Performance Core Base Frequency

4.61 GHz

2.4 GHz

Efficiency Cores

6

—

Efficiency Core Threads

6

—

Efficiency Core Base Frequency

3.0 GHz

—

Total Core Count

10

2

Total Thread Count

10

4

Multiplier

46

24.0

L1 Cache

192 K per core

64 KB per core

L2 Cache

16 MB shared

512 KB per core

Unlocked Multiplier

No

No

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

—

3.7 GHz

Bus Frequency

—

100 MHz

L3 Cache

—

4 MB shared

SMP

—

1

Memory Parameters

Memory Types

LPDDR5X-9600

LPDDR5-5500

Max Memory Bandwidth

153 GB/s

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ECC Memory Support

No

No

Max Memory Channels

—

2

Graphics Card Parameters

Integrated Graphics

true

—

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

2005 MHz

—

Shader Units

1024

—

Texture Units

64

—

Raster Operation Units

32

—

Execution Units

128

—

Miscellaneous

PCIe Version

—

3

PCIe Lanes

—

4

Benchmark

Cinebench R23

2,552

—

Cinebench R23

15,912

—

Geekbench 6

4,251

888

Geekbench 6

17,501

1,822

Cinebench 2024

206

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Cinebench 2024

1,170

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▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.