Apple M3 vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900H

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Apple M3 AMD Ryzen 9 5900H

We compared two laptop CPUs: Apple M3 with 8 cores 4.05GHz and AMD Ryzen 9 5900H with 8 cores 3.3GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

Apple M3 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Higher specification of memory (LPDDR5-6400 vs LPDDR4-4266)

Larger memory bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 68.27GB/s)

Newer PCIe version (4.0 vs 3.0)

Higher base frequency (4.05GHz vs 3.3GHz)

Larger L3 cache size (64MB vs 16MB)

Lower TDP (20W vs 45W)

Score

Benchmark

Cinebench R23 Single Core

Apple M3 +30%

1909

AMD Ryzen 9 5900H

1466

Cinebench R23 Multi Core

Apple M3

10497

AMD Ryzen 9 5900H +22%

12815

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple M3 +47%

3009

AMD Ryzen 9 5900H

2034

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple M3 +60%

11805

AMD Ryzen 9 5900H

7376

Passmark CPU Single Core

Apple M3 +46%

4850

AMD Ryzen 9 5900H

3308

Passmark CPU Multi Core

Apple M3

19597

AMD Ryzen 9 5900H +5%

20753

Apple M3

VS

AMD Ryzen 9 5900H

General Parameters

Oct 2023

Release Date

Apr 2021

Apple

Manufacturer

AMD

Laptop

Type

Laptop

ARMv8

Instruction Set

x86-64

Apple M3

Core Architecture

Cezanne

Apple M-Socket

Socket

FP6

Apple M3 GPU

Integrated Graphics

Radeon RX Vega 8

Package

25 billions

Transistor Count

-

3 nm

Manufacturing Process

7 nm

Apple M-Socket

Socket

FP6

20 W

Power Consumption

45 W

100°C

Peak Operating Temperature

105 °C

CPU Performance

4

Performance Cores

8

4

Performance Core Threads

16

4.05 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

3.3 GHz

4.05 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

4.6 GHz

4

Efficiency Cores

-

4

Efficiency Core Threads

-

2.75 GHz

Efficiency Core Base Frequency

-

2.57 GHz

Efficiency Core Turbo Frequency

-

8

Total Core Count

8

Total Thread Count

16

-

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

40x

Multiplier

33x

192 K per core

L1 Cache

64 K per core

16 MB shared

L2 Cache

512 K per core

64 MB shared

L3 Cache

16 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

Memory Parameters

LPDDR5-6400

Memory Types

DDR4-3200, LPDDR4-4266

24 GB

Max Memory Size

64 GB

2

Max Memory Channels

2

102.4 GB/s

Max Memory Bandwidth

68.27 GB/s

No

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Graphics Card Parameters

true

Integrated Graphics

true

500 MHz

GPU Base Frequency

-

1600 MHz

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

1750 MHz

1280

Shader Units

512

80

Texture Units

32

40

Raster Operation Units

8

160

Execution Units

-

Power Consumption

15 W

4.1 TFLOPS

Graphics Performance

-

Miscellaneous

4.0

PCIe Version

3.0

-

PCIe Lanes

16

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