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Apple M2 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7950X

57 out of 100
Apple M2
VS
79 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X
Apple M2
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X

We compared two CPUs: the 3.5 GHz Apple M2 (laptop) with 8-cores against the 4.5 GHz AMD Ryzen 9 7950X (desktop) with 16-cores. 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
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 7950X and M2
Advantages of Apple M2
  • More powerful Apple M2 GPU integrated graphics: 2.9 vs 0.6 TFLOPS
  • Around 19.2 GB/s (23%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 7950X
  • Supports up to 192 GB DDR5-5200 RAM
  • Has 8 more physical cores
  • Unlocked multiplier
  • Newer PCI Express version – 5.0
  • 19% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 3068 vs 2589 points

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Apple M2
vs
Ryzen 9 7950X

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Apple M2 +4%
125
Ryzen 9 7950X
120
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Apple M2
582
Ryzen 9 7950X +257%
2077
Cinebench 2026 (Single) - 679
Cinebench 2026 (Multi) - 8943
Cinebench Scores (#18th place)
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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
2589
Ryzen 9 7950X +19%
3068
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple M2
10122
Ryzen 9 7950X +111%
21401
File compression 1130 MB/sec 1960 MB/sec
Clang compilation 80.4 Klines/sec 211.3 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 235.3 pages/sec 414.2 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 266.1 Mpixels/sec 540.6 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 257.4 pages/sec 304.8 pages/sec
Background blur 42.1 images/sec 78.9 images/sec
Photo processing 107 images/sec 148.7 images/sec
Ray tracing 10.5 Mpixels/sec 46.1 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 465 & 1055 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Apple M2
3883
Ryzen 9 7950X +10%
4252
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Apple M2
15651
Ryzen 9 7950X +297%
62139
Integer math 37 GOps/sec 224.2 GOps/sec
Floating point math 37.5 GOps/sec 137.4 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 174M Primes/sec 333M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 23.7M Strings/sec 98.4M Strings/sec
Data encryption 9.5 GBytes/sec 49.1 GBytes/sec
Data compression 185.8 MBytes/sec 831.2 MBytes/sec
Physics 1667 Frames/sec 3073 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 7.8B Matrices/sec 61.7B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 4611 & 8748 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
Apple M2
109.19
Ryzen 9 7950X +428%
576.1

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 32.3 PPW 12.2 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 562.3 PPW 125.9 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 869.5 PPW 365.5 PPW
Blender / Watt 6.07 PPW 3.39 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 9 7950X
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-04-25 (Leandro Irgang)Cinebench 2026679 / 8943
πŸ“˜ 2026-04-25 (VikTOR)Cinebench 2024125 / 2213
πŸ“˜ 2026-02-07 (Gerard)Cinebench 2026627 / 8337
πŸ“˜ 2025-12-17 (RipePipe)Cinebench 2024118 / 1956
πŸ“˜ 2024-11-28 (Mirage_Tahmid)Cinebench 2024118 / 1966
Add View all (10)

Specifications

Full technical specification of Apple M2 and AMD Ryzen 9 7950X

General

Vendor Apple Amd
Released June 6, 2022 August 29, 2022
Type Laptop Desktop
Instruction Set ARMv8 x86-64
Codename Apple M2 Zen 4 (Raphael)
Integrated GPU Apple M2 GPU Radeon Graphics (Ryzen 7000)
Rival Equivalent - - Intel Core i9 13900K
Successor - Apple M5 (10-Core) - AMD Ryzen 9 9950X

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 16
P-Threads 4 32
Base Frequency (P) 3.5 GHz 4.5 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) - 5.7 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 4 -
E-Threads 4 -
Base Frequency (E) 2.4 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 8 16
Total Threads 8 32
Bus Frequency - 100 MHz
Multiplier - 45x
L1 Cache 192K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 16MB (shared) 1MB (per core)
L3 Cache - 64MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No Yes

Package

Transistors 20 billions 13.1 billions
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
TDP (PL1) 18 W 170 W
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) - 230 W
Socket Apple M-Socket AM5
Peak Temperature - 95Β°C
Desktop CPU ranking (#18th place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Apple M2 GPU Radeon Graphics (Ryzen 7000)
GPU Base Clock 500 MHz 400 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1398 MHz 2200 MHz
Shading Units 1024 128
TMUs 64 8
ROPs 32 4
Execution Units 128 2
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
Apple M2 +383%
2.9 TFLOPS
Ryzen 9 7950X
0.6 TFLOPS
More info: Radeon Graphics iGPU (Ryzen 7000) compared to Apple M2 GPU (8-core)

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR5-6400 - DDR5-5200
Max. Memory Size 24 GB 192 GB
Memory Channels 8 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 102.4 GB/s 83.2 GB/s
ECC Support No Yes

Misc

Official Site - AMD Ryzen 9 7950X official page
PCI Express Version 4.0 5.0
PCI Express Lanes - 28

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Comments

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