Apple M1 Max vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700U
We compared two laptop CPUs: the 3.2 GHz Apple M1 Max with 10-cores against the 1.8 GHz AMD Ryzen 7 5700U with 8-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.
Review
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
NanoReview Final Score
Generic CPU rating
Key Differences
Advantages of Apple M1 Max
- Supports up to 64 GB LPDDR5-6400 RAM
- Newer - released 1-year and 4-months later
- 56% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2410 vs 1547 points
- More modern manufacturing process – 5 versus 7 nanometers
- Has 2 more physical cores
Promotion
Test in Benchmarks
Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasksCinebench R23
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
| File compression | 1500 MB/sec | 388.5 MB/sec |
| Clang compilation | 106.4 Klines/sec | 50.6 Klines/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 325.3 pages/sec | 100.8 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 324.6 Mpixels/sec | 177.1 Mpixels/sec |
| Text processing | 251.3 pages/sec | 129.3 pages/sec |
| Background blur | 41.4 images/sec | 27.7 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 116 images/sec | 43.7 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 15.3 Mpixels/sec | 13.3 Mpixels/sec |
PassMark
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
| Integer math | 46.9 GOps/sec | 61.3 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | 65 GOps/sec | 33.9 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | 281M Primes/sec | 29M Primes/sec |
| Random string sorting | 33.1M Strings/sec | 24.1M Strings/sec |
| Data encryption | 12.4 GBytes/sec | 12.9 GBytes/sec |
| Data compression | 276.7 MBytes/sec | 222.6 MBytes/sec |
| Physics | 2838 Frames/sec | 616 Frames/sec |
| Extended instructions | 11.7B Matrices/sec | 13.7B Matrices/sec |
Specifications
Full technical specification of Apple M1 Max and AMD Ryzen 7 5700UGeneral
| Vendor | Apple | AMD |
| Released | May 7, 2022 | January 12, 2021 |
| Type | Laptop | Laptop |
| instruction set | ARMv8 | x86-64 |
| Codename | Apple M1 | Zen 2 (Lucienne) |
| Integrated GPU | Apple M1 Max GPU (32-core) | Radeon RX Vega 8 |
CPU
| P-Cores | 8 | 8 |
| P-Threads | 8 | 16 |
| Base Frequency (P) | 3.2 GHz | 1.8 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency (P) | - | 4.3 GHz |
| E-Cores | 2 | - |
| E-Threads | 2 | - |
| Base Frequency (E) | 2.1 GHz | - |
| Total Cores | 10 | 8 |
| Total Threads | 10 | 16 |
| Bus Frequency | - | 100 MHz |
| Multiplier | - | 18x |
| L1 Cache | 192K (per core) | 64K (per core) |
| L2 Cache | 24MB (shared) | 512K (per core) |
| L3 Cache | - | 8MB (shared) |
| Unlocked Multiplier | No | No |
Package
| Transistors | 57 billions | - |
| Fabrication process | 5 nm | 7 nm |
| TDP (PL1) | 30 W | 10-25 W (configurable) |
| Socket | Apple M-Socket | FP6 |
| Peak temperature | - | 105°C |
iGPU
| Integrated Graphics | Apple M1 Max GPU (32-core) | Radeon RX Vega 8 |
| GPU Base Clock | 450 MHz | - |
| GPU Boost Clock | 1296 MHz | 1900 MHz |
| Shading Units | 4096 | 512 |
| TMUs | 256 | 32 |
| ROPs | 128 | 8 |
| TGP | 60 W | 15 W |
| Max. Resolution | 6016x3384 - 60 Hz | - |
iGPU FLOPS
Memory Support
| Memory types | - LPDDR5-6400 | - DDR4-3200 - LPDDR4-4266 |
| Memory Size | 64 GB | 32 GB |
| Max. Memory Channels | 8 | 2 |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | 409.6 GB/s | - |
| ECC Support | No | No |
Misc
| Official site | - | AMD Ryzen 7 5700U official page |
| PCI Express Version | - | 3.0 |
| PCI Express Lanes | - | 12 |
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