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Apple M3 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7950X

67 out of 100
Apple M3
VS
79 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X
Apple M3
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X

We compared two CPUs: the 4.05 GHz Apple M3 (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
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Power Efficiency
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 7950X and M3
Advantages of Apple M3
  • More powerful Apple M3 GPU integrated graphics: 3.5 vs 0.6 TFLOPS
  • More modern manufacturing process – 3 versus 5 nanometers
  • Newer - released 1 year and 3 months later
  • 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

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Apple M3
vs
Ryzen 9 7950X

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Apple M3 +17%
140
Ryzen 9 7950X
120
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Apple M3
712
Ryzen 9 7950X +192%
2077
Cinebench 2026 (Single) - 679
Cinebench 2026 (Multi) 2341 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 M3
3009
Ryzen 9 7950X +2%
3068
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple M3
11815
Ryzen 9 7950X +81%
21401
File compression 1260 MB/sec 1960 MB/sec
Clang compilation 94.7 Klines/sec 211.3 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 264.5 pages/sec 414.2 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 313.9 Mpixels/sec 540.6 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 297 pages/sec 304.8 pages/sec
Background blur 50.2 images/sec 78.9 images/sec
Photo processing 114.8 images/sec 148.7 images/sec
Ray tracing 12.9 Mpixels/sec 46.1 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 438 & 1055 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Apple M3 +11%
4707
Ryzen 9 7950X
4252
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Apple M3
19065
Ryzen 9 7950X +226%
62139
Integer math 42.6 GOps/sec 224.2 GOps/sec
Floating point math 48.3 GOps/sec 137.4 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 231M Primes/sec 333M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 27.3M Strings/sec 98.4M Strings/sec
Data encryption 11.5 GBytes/sec 49.1 GBytes/sec
Data compression 225 MBytes/sec 831.2 MBytes/sec
Physics 1867 Frames/sec 3073 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 10B Matrices/sec 61.7B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 1563 & 8748 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
Apple M3
160.35
Ryzen 9 7950X +259%
576.1

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 35.6 PPW 12.2 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 590.8 PPW 125.9 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 953.3 PPW 365.5 PPW
Blender / Watt 8.02 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 M3
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-08-22 (doannguyenmfs)Geekbench 6 CPU2991 / 11735
πŸ“˜ 2026-06-16 (darkknightSup)Geekbench 6 CPU2990 / 11498
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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
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Specifications

Full technical specification of Apple M3 and AMD Ryzen 9 7950X

General

Vendor Apple Amd
Released October 30, 2023 August 29, 2022
Type Laptop Desktop
Instruction Set ARMv8 x86-64
Codename Apple M3 Zen 4 (Raphael)
Integrated GPU Apple M3 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) 4.05 GHz 4.5 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) - 5.7 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 4 -
E-Threads 4 -
Base Frequency (E) 2.75 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 8 16
Total Threads 8 32
Bus Frequency - 100 MHz
Multiplier 40x 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 25 billions 13.1 billions
Fabrication Process 3 nm 5 nm
TDP (PL1) 20 W 170 W
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) - 230 W
Socket Apple M-Socket AM5
Peak Temperature 100Β°C 95Β°C
Desktop CPU ranking (#18th place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Apple M3 GPU Radeon Graphics (Ryzen 7000)
GPU Base Clock 500 MHz 400 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1380 MHz 2200 MHz
Shading Units 1280 128
TMUs 80 8
ROPs 40 4
Execution Units 160 2
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
Apple M3 +483%
3.5 TFLOPS
Ryzen 9 7950X
0.6 TFLOPS
More info: Radeon Graphics iGPU (Ryzen 7000) compared to Apple M3 GPU (10-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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