amd ryzen 5 6600u vs apple m1 pro
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We compared two CPUs AMD Ryzen 5 6600U (Laptop) 6-cores against Apple M1 Pro (Laptop) 10-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.
Review
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Key Differences
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 6600U
- Newer released 1 years later
- 28% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.5 GHz vs 3.22 GHz)
Advantages of Apple M1 Pro
- Has 4 more physical cores
- Has 8 MB larger L3 cache size
- More modern manufacturing process – 5 versus 6
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
Specifications
General
| AMD Ryzen 5 6600U | Apple M1 Pro | |
| Vendor | AMD | Apple |
| Released | January 4 2022 | October 18 2021 |
| Type | Laptop | Laptop |
| instruction set | x86-64 | x86-64 |
| Codename | Rembrandt U | |
| Socket | FP7 | |
| Integrated GPU | AMD Radeon 660M | Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU |
Performance
| AMD Ryzen 5 6600U | Apple M1 Pro | |
| Cores | 6 | 10 |
| Threads | 12 | 10 |
| Base Frequency | 2.9 GHz | 2.064 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency | 4.5 GHz | 3.22 GHz |
| L1 Cache | 64K (per core) | 2.9 MB |
| L2 Cache | 512K (per core) | 28 MB |
| L3 Cache | 16 MB (shared) | 24 MB |
Power
| AMD Ryzen 5 6600U | Apple M1 Pro | |
| Fabrication process | 6 nm | 5 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 W | W |
| Max. temperature | 95°C | °C |
Memory support
| AMD Ryzen 5 6600U | Apple M1 Pro | |
| Memory types | DDR5-4800 | |
| Memory Size | GB | GB |
| Max. Memory Channels | ||
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | - | - |
| ECC Support | No | No |
iGPU
| AMD Ryzen 5 6600U | Apple M1 Pro | |
| Integrated Graphics | AMD Radeon 660M | Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU |
| GPU Base Clock | 1500 MHz | 450 MHz |
| Shading Units | 384 | 2048 |
| TMUs | 24 | 128 |
| ROPs | 16 | 64 |
| TGP | 15 W | 30 W |
iGPU FLOPS
Misc
| AMD Ryzen 5 6600U | Apple M1 Pro | |
| Official site | AMD Ryzen 5 6600U official page | Apple M1 Pro official page |
| PCI Express Version | 4 | |
| PCI Express Lanes |