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Apple M1 vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS

53 out of 100
Apple M1
VS
46 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS
Apple M1
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS

We compared two 8-core laptop CPUs: the 3.2 GHz Apple M1 against the 3 GHz AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS. 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 5900HS and M1
Advantages of Apple M1
  • More modern manufacturing process – 5 versus 7 nanometers
  • Newer PCI Express version – 4.0
  • 32% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2410 vs 1825 points
  • More powerful Apple M1 GPU integrated graphics: 2.6 vs 2.2 TFLOPS
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS
  • Supports up to 64 GB DDR4-3200 RAM

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Apple M1
vs
Ryzen 9 5900HS

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Apple M1 +29%
110
Ryzen 9 5900HS
85
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Apple M1
525
Ryzen 9 5900HS +31%
690
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GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple M1 +32%
2410
Ryzen 9 5900HS
1825
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple M1 +16%
8547
Ryzen 9 5900HS
7383
File compression 941 MB/sec 609.2 MB/sec
Clang compilation 68.2 Klines/sec 61.3 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 192.4 pages/sec 124.3 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 211.9 Mpixels/sec 230 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 250.8 pages/sec 204.8 pages/sec
Background blur 34.1 images/sec 26.1 images/sec
Photo processing 60.9 images/sec 53.2 images/sec
Ray tracing 9.74 Mpixels/sec 18.7 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 760 & 425 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Apple M1 +18%
3673
Ryzen 9 5900HS
3110
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Apple M1
14123
Ryzen 9 5900HS +49%
21008
Integer math 33.2 GOps/sec 83.7 GOps/sec
Floating point math 35.5 GOps/sec 46.1 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 141M Primes/sec 46M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 21M Strings/sec 28.7M Strings/sec
Data encryption 8.5 GBytes/sec 17.4 GBytes/sec
Data compression 168 MBytes/sec 276.3 MBytes/sec
Physics 1359 Frames/sec 762 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 7B Matrices/sec 18.7B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 10702 & 1536 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
Apple M1
95.27
Ryzen 9 5900HS +73%
164.35

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 37.5 PPW 19.7 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 610.5 PPW 210.9 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 1008.8 PPW 600.2 PPW
Blender / Watt 6.81 PPW 4.7 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“˜ 2026-09-25 -> op1Geekbench 6 CPU2273 / 7967
πŸ“˜ 2026-08-24 -> op1Geekbench 6 CPU2420 / 8793
πŸ“˜ 2026-03-06 (gaR)Geekbench 6 CPU2396 / 8763
πŸ“˜ 2025-04-11 (Ario)Geekbench 6 CPU2395 / 8820
πŸ“˜ 2025-04-11 (Ario)Cinebench 2024110 / 465
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Specifications

Full technical specification of Apple M1 and AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS

General

Vendor Apple Amd
Released November 20, 2020 January 12, 2021
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set ARMv8 x86-64
Codename Apple M1 Zen 3 (Cezanne)
Integrated GPU Apple M1 GPU Radeon RX Vega 8
Rival Equivalent - - Intel Core i9 11980HK
Successor - Apple M5 (10-Core) - AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#135th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 8
P-Threads 4 16
Base Frequency (P) 3.2 GHz 3.0 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) - 4.6 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 - 30x
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 7 nm
TDP (PL1) 14 W 35 W
Socket Apple M-Socket FP6
Peak Temperature - 105Β°C

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Apple M1 GPU Radeon RX Vega 8
GPU Base Clock 450 MHz 300 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1278 MHz 2100 MHz
Shading Units 1024 512
TMUs 64 32
ROPs 32 8
Execution Units 128 8
TGP 15 W 25 W
iGPU FLOPS
Apple M1 +18%
2.6 TFLOPS
Ryzen 9 5900HS
2.2 TFLOPS
More info: Radeon RX Vega 8 compared to Apple M1 GPU (8-core)

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR4X-4266 - DDR4-3200
- LPDDR4-4266
Max. Memory Size 16 GB 64 GB
Memory Channels 8 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 68.25 GB/s -
ECC Support No No

Misc

PCI Express Version 4.0 3.0
PCI Express Lanes - 12

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Comments

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