amd ryzen 5 5500 vs apple m1

Apple M1
VS
AMD Ryzen 5 5500
Apple M1
AMD Ryzen 5 5500

We compared two CPUs Apple M1 (Desktop) 8-cores against AMD Ryzen 5 5500 (Desktop) 6-cores. In this comparison page, we check which of these two processor has better performance in benchmark results, Games, architecture, price 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
Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved

Key Differences

What are the key differences between Apple M1 and AMD Ryzen 5 5500
Advantages of Apple M1
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • More modern manufacturing process – 5 versus 7
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 5500
  • Newer released 2 years later
  • 24% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.2 GHz vs 3.2 GHz)

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
m1 +23%
1528
ryzen 5 5500
1176
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
m1 +8%
7810
ryzen 5 5500
7167
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
m1 +19%
3769
ryzen 5 5500
3053
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
m1
14821
ryzen 5 5500 +25%
19696
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
m1 +36%
1748
ryzen 5 5500
1118
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
m1 +34%
8274
ryzen 5 5500
5495

Specifications

Full technical specification of m1 and ryzen 5 5500

General

Apple M1 AMD Ryzen 5 5500
Vendor Apple AMD
Released November 10 2020 April 4 2022
Type Desktop Desktop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Cezanne
Socket AM4
Integrated GPU Apple M1 8-Core GPU

Performance

Apple M1 AMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores 8 6
Threads 8 12
Base Frequency 2.064 GHz 3.7 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 3.2 GHz 4.2 GHz
L1 Cache 2 MB 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 16 MB 512K (per core)
L3 Cache 16 MB
Unlocked Multiplier No Yes

Power

Apple M1 AMD Ryzen 5 5500
Fabrication process 5 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) W 65 W

Memory support

Apple M1 AMD Ryzen 5 5500
Memory types DDR4-3200
Memory Size GB GB
Max. Memory Channels
Max. Memory Bandwidth - -
ECC Support No No

iGPU

Apple M1 AMD Ryzen 5 5500
Integrated Graphics Apple M1 8-Core GPU
GPU Base Clock 450 MHz MHz
Shading Units 1024
TMUs 64
ROPs 32
TGP 15 W W
iGPU FLOPS
m1
2.6 TFLOPS
ryzen 5 5500
TFLOPS

Misc

Apple M1 AMD Ryzen 5 5500
Official site Apple M1 official page AMD Ryzen 5 5500 official page
PCI Express Version 3
PCI Express Lanes

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Comments

So which CPU will you choose: AMD Ryzen 5 5500 or Apple M1?