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Apple M2 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

57 out of 100
Apple M2
VS
57 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 7 7840U
Apple M2
AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

We compared two 8-core laptop CPUs: the 3.5 GHz Apple M2 against the 3.3 GHz AMD Ryzen 7 7840U. 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 7840U and M2
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 7 7840U
  • Supports up to 256 GB DDR5-5600 RAM
  • More powerful Radeon 780M integrated graphics: 4.1 vs 2.9 TFLOPS
  • Newer - released 11 months later
  • More modern manufacturing process – 4 versus 5 nanometers

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Apple M2
vs
Ryzen 7 7840U

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Apple M2 +30%
125
Ryzen 7 7840U
96
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Apple M2
582
Ryzen 7 7840U +25%
728
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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 M2 +5%
2589
Ryzen 7 7840U
2465
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple M2
10122
Ryzen 7 7840U +6%
10726
File compression 1130 MB/sec 1110 MB/sec
Clang compilation 80.4 Klines/sec 82.2 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 235.3 pages/sec 210.4 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 266.1 Mpixels/sec 298.4 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 257.4 pages/sec 250.6 pages/sec
Background blur 42.1 images/sec 47.5 images/sec
Photo processing 107 images/sec 90.5 images/sec
Ray tracing 10.5 Mpixels/sec 17.5 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 465 & 1087 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Apple M2 +10%
3883
Ryzen 7 7840U
3537
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Apple M2
15651
Ryzen 7 7840U +56%
24383
Integer math 37 GOps/sec 89.3 GOps/sec
Floating point math 37.5 GOps/sec 50.9 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 174M Primes/sec 79M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 23.7M Strings/sec 33.5M Strings/sec
Data encryption 9.5 GBytes/sec 17.4 GBytes/sec
Data compression 185.8 MBytes/sec 282.7 MBytes/sec
Physics 1667 Frames/sec 1245 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 7.8B Matrices/sec 20B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 4611 & 551 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
Apple M2
109.19
Ryzen 7 7840U +83%
199.52

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 32.3 PPW 24.3 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 562.3 PPW 357.5 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 869.5 PPW 812.8 PPW
Blender / Watt 6.07 PPW 6.65 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 M2
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-03-14 (T)Geekbench 6 CPU2647 / 10245
πŸ“˜ 2026-01-05 (AR)Geekbench 6 CPU2655 / 10211
πŸ“˜ 2025-10-24 (Shivam)Geekbench 6 CPU2619 / 9900
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AMD Ryzen 7 7840U
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2025-08-03 (Aaron)Cinebench 202493 / 764
πŸ“˜ 2025-03-15 (JP)Cinebench 202496 / 728
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Specifications

Full technical specification of Apple M2 and AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

General

Vendor Apple Amd
Released June 6, 2022 May 3, 2023
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set ARMv8 x86-64
Codename Apple M2 Zen 4 (Phoenix)
Integrated GPU Apple M2 GPU Radeon 780M
Rival Equivalent - - Intel Core i7 1370P
Successor - Apple M5 (10-Core) - AMD Ryzen 7 250
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#82nd place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 8
P-Threads 4 16
Base Frequency (P) 3.5 GHz 3.3 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) - 5.1 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 4 -
E-Threads 4 -
Base Frequency (E) 2.4 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 8 8
Total Threads 8 16
Bus Frequency - 100 MHz
Multiplier - 33x
L1 Cache 192K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 16MB (shared) 1MB (per core)
L3 Cache - 16MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Transistors 20 billions 25 billions
Fabrication Process 5 nm 4 nm
TDP (PL1) 18 W 15-30 W (configurable)
Socket Apple M-Socket FP8
Peak Temperature - 100Β°C
Laptop processors ranking (133rd and 130th place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Apple M2 GPU Radeon 780M
GPU Base Clock 500 MHz 800 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1398 MHz 2700 MHz
Shading Units 1024 768
TMUs 64 48
ROPs 32 32
Execution Units 128 12
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
Apple M2
2.9 TFLOPS
Ryzen 7 7840U +41%
4.1 TFLOPS
More info: Radeon 780M compared to Apple M2 GPU (8-core)

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR5-6400 - DDR5-5600
- LPDDR5x-7500
Max. Memory Size 24 GB 256 GB
Memory Channels 8 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 102.4 GB/s -
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site - AMD Ryzen 7 7840U official page
PCI Express Version 4.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes - 20

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Comments

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