Which AMD APU are you specifically asking about?
The processing performance of APUs are generally lower than Intel CPUs. The Radeon integrated graphics might be better than Intel HD graphics, then again it could be worse.
The AMD A8-9410 generally has lower performance than an Intel Core i3-7100u in processing performance. The Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge) integrated graphics core is less powerful than the Intel HD 620 integrated graphics core. The following link to Notebookcheck.net includes all games that were benchmarked on both of the mentioned integrated graphic cores. While they rank the Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge) at #289 and the Intel HD 620 at a lower #290 rank (for some strange reason), the game benchmarks indicates the Intel HD 620...