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Apple M3 vs AMD Ryzen AI 9 365

67 out of 100
Apple M3
VS
68 out of 100
AMD Ryzen AI 9 365
Apple M3
AMD Ryzen AI 9 365

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 4.05 GHz Apple M3 with 8-cores against the 2.0 GHz AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 with 10-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
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 365 and M3
Advantages of Apple M3
  • More modern manufacturing process – 3 versus 4 nanometers
  • Around 12.8 GB/s (14%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
Advantages of AMD Ryzen AI 9 365
  • Supports up to 256 GB DDR5-5600 RAM
  • Newer - released 8 months later
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • More powerful AMD Radeon 880M integrated graphics: 4.5 vs 3.5 TFLOPS

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Apple M3
vs
Ryzen AI 9 365

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Apple M3 +20%
140
Ryzen AI 9 365
117
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Apple M3
712
Ryzen AI 9 365 +51%
1077
Cinebench 2026 (Multi) 2341 -
Cinebench Scores (#137th 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 +1%
3009
Ryzen AI 9 365
2976
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple M3
11815
Ryzen AI 9 365 +18%
13969
File compression 1260 MB/sec 1240 MB/sec
Clang compilation 94.7 Klines/sec 101.4 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 264.5 pages/sec 296.9 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 313.9 Mpixels/sec 437.7 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 297 pages/sec 289 pages/sec
Background blur 50.2 images/sec 65.4 images/sec
Photo processing 114.8 images/sec 122.8 images/sec
Ray tracing 12.9 Mpixels/sec 25.9 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 438 & 1 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Apple M3 +22%
4707
Ryzen AI 9 365
3863
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Apple M3
19065
Ryzen AI 9 365 +59%
30347
Integer math 42.6 GOps/sec 103.6 GOps/sec
Floating point math 48.3 GOps/sec 64.7 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 231M Primes/sec 120M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 27.3M Strings/sec 40.6M Strings/sec
Data encryption 11.5 GBytes/sec 18.8 GBytes/sec
Data compression 225 MBytes/sec 370.7 MBytes/sec
Physics 1867 Frames/sec 1711 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 10B Matrices/sec 26.3B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 1563 & 879 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
Apple M3
160.35
Ryzen AI 9 365 +56%
250.34

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 35.6 PPW 19.9 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 590.8 PPW 258.7 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 953.3 PPW 562 PPW
Blender / Watt 8.02 PPW 4.64 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 AI 9 365
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-01-11 (Mark)Cinebench 2024117 / 1077
πŸ“˜ 2025-03-10 (rrevi)Geekbench 6 CPU2967 / 15033
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Specifications

Full technical specification of Apple M3 and AMD Ryzen AI 9 365

General

Vendor Apple Amd
Released October 30, 2023 June 3, 2024
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set ARMv8 x86-64
Codename Apple M3 Zen 5 (Strix Point)
Model number - 365
Integrated GPU Apple M3 GPU Radeon 880M
Rival Equivalent - - Intel Core Ultra 9 285H
Successor - Apple M5 (10-Core) - AMD Ryzen AI 9 465
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#38th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 4
P-Threads 4 8
Base Frequency (P) 4.05 GHz 2.0 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) - 5 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 4 6
E-Threads 4 12
Base Frequency (E) 2.75 GHz 2.0 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) - 3.3 GHz
Total
Total Cores 8 10
Total Threads 8 20
Bus Frequency - 100 MHz
Multiplier 40x 20x
L1 Cache 192K (per core) 80K (per core)
L2 Cache 16MB (shared) 1MB (per core)
L3 Cache - 24MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Transistors 25 billions -
Fabrication Process 3 nm 4 nm
TDP (PL1) 20 W 15-54 W (configurable)
Socket Apple M-Socket FP8
Peak Temperature 100Β°C 100Β°C
Laptop processors ranking (69th and 62nd place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Apple M3 GPU AMD Radeon 880M
GPU Base Clock 500 MHz 400 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1380 MHz 2900 MHz
Shading Units 1280 768
TMUs 80 48
ROPs 40 16
Execution Units 160 12
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
Apple M3
3.5 TFLOPS
Ryzen AI 9 365 +29%
4.5 TFLOPS
More info: Radeon 880M compared to Apple M3 GPU (10-core)

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR5-6400 - DDR5-5600
- LPDDR5X-8000
Max. Memory Size 24 GB 256 GB
Memory Channels 8 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 102.4 GB/s 89.6 GB/s
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site - AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 official page
PCI Express Version 4.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes - 16

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Total votes: 54

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Comments

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