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Apple M1 vs AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U

53 out of 100
Apple M1
VS
49 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U
Apple M1
AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U

We compared two 8-core laptop CPUs: the 3.2 GHz Apple M1 against the 2.7 GHz AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Performance
  4. Specs
  5. Comments

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
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
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 6850U and M1
Advantages of Apple M1
  • More modern manufacturing process – 5 versus 6 nanometers
  • 18% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2410 vs 2044 points
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U
  • Supports up to 64 GB DDR5-4800 RAM
  • Newer - released 1 year and 5 months later
  • More powerful AMD Radeon 680M integrated graphics: 3.4 vs 2.6 TFLOPS

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Apple M1
vs
Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Submit your benchmark results

GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple M1 +18%
2410
Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U
2044
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
File compression 941 MB/sec 953.7 MB/sec
Clang compilation 68.2 Klines/sec 64.7 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 192.4 pages/sec 184.5 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 211.9 Mpixels/sec 260 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 250.8 pages/sec 203.6 pages/sec
Background blur 34.1 images/sec 37.3 images/sec
Photo processing 60.9 images/sec 69.1 images/sec
Ray tracing 9.74 Mpixels/sec 13.2 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 760 & 1170 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Apple M1 +15%
3673
Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U
3201
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Apple M1
14123
Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U +45%
20515
Integer math 33.2 GOps/sec 78.6 GOps/sec
Floating point math 35.5 GOps/sec 42.6 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 141M Primes/sec 56M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 21M Strings/sec 26.5M Strings/sec
Data encryption 8.5 GBytes/sec 15.8 GBytes/sec
Data compression 168 MBytes/sec 247.6 MBytes/sec
Physics 1359 Frames/sec 985 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 7B Matrices/sec 16B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 10702 & 694 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
Apple M1
95.27
Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U +58%
150.36

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 37.5 PPW 16.7 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 610.5 PPW 304.2 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 1008.8 PPW 732.7 PPW
Blender / Watt 6.81 PPW 5.37 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Apple M1
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-08-24 -> op1GeekBench2420 / 8793
πŸ“˜ 2026-03-06 (gaR)GeekBench2396 / 8763
πŸ“˜ 2025-04-11 (Ario)GeekBench2395 / 8820
πŸ“˜ 2025-04-11 (Ario)Cinebench 2024110 / 465
πŸ“˜ 2025-01-17 (Qianhe)Cinebench 2024110 / 525
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AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2025-10-21 (Jonathan)Cinebench 202480 / 546
πŸ“˜ 2025-01-11 (Kartoffeln)Cinebench 202482 / 582
πŸ“˜ 2025-01-11 (Kartoffeln)Cinebench 202481 / 468
Add View all (3)

Specifications

Full technical specification of Apple M1 and AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U

General

Vendor Apple Amd
Released November 20, 2020 April 20, 2022
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set ARMv8 x86-64
Codename Apple M1 Zen 3+ (Rembrandt)
Integrated GPU Apple M1 GPU Radeon 680M
Successor - Apple M5 (10-Core) -
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#115th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 8
P-Threads 4 16
Base Frequency (P) 3.2 GHz 2.7 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) - 4.7 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 4 -
E-Threads 4 -
Base Frequency (E) 2.1 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 8 8
Total Threads 8 16
Bus Frequency - 100 MHz
Multiplier - 27x
L1 Cache 192K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 12MB (shared) 512K (per core)
L3 Cache - 16MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Transistors 16 billions -
Fabrication Process 5 nm 6 nm
TDP (PL1) 14 W 15-28 W (configurable)
Socket Apple M-Socket FP7
Peak Temperature - 95Β°C

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Apple M1 GPU AMD Radeon 680M
GPU Base Clock 450 MHz 400 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1278 MHz 2200 MHz
Shading Units 1024 768
TMUs 64 48
ROPs 32 32
Execution Units 128 12
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
Apple M1
2.6 TFLOPS
Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U +31%
3.4 TFLOPS
More info: Radeon 680M compared to Apple M1 GPU (8-core)

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR4X-4266 - DDR5-4800
- LPDDR5-6400
Max. Memory Size 16 GB 64 GB
Memory Channels 8 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 68.25 GB/s -
ECC Support No Yes

Misc

Official Site - AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U official page
PCI Express Version 4.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes - 20

Cast your vote

Choose between two processors
11 (24.4%)
34 (75.6%)
Total votes: 45

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Comments

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