amd ryzen 9 3900x vs apple m1 pro
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We compared two CPUs Apple M1 Pro (Laptop) 10-cores against AMD Ryzen 9 3900X (Desktop) 12-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 Apple M1 Pro
- Newer released 2 years later
- More modern manufacturing process – 5 versus 7
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
- Has 2 more physical cores
- Has 40 MB larger L3 cache size
- 30% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.6 GHz vs 3.22 GHz)
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
| Apple M1 Pro | AMD Ryzen 9 3900X | |
| Vendor | Apple | AMD |
| Released | October 18 2021 | July 7 2019 |
| Type | Laptop | Desktop |
| instruction set | x86-64 | x86-64 |
| Codename | Matisse | |
| Socket | AM4 | |
| Integrated GPU | Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU | - |
Performance
| Apple M1 Pro | AMD Ryzen 9 3900X | |
| Cores | 10 | 12 |
| Threads | 10 | 24 |
| Base Frequency | 2.064 GHz | 3.8 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency | 3.22 GHz | 4.6 GHz |
| L1 Cache | 2.9 MB | 96K (per core) |
| L2 Cache | 28 MB | 512K (per core) |
| L3 Cache | 24 MB | 64 MB |
| Unlocked Multiplier | No | Yes |
Power
| Apple M1 Pro | AMD Ryzen 9 3900X | |
| Fabrication process | 5 nm | 7 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | W | 125 W |
| Max. temperature | °C | 95°C |
Memory support
| Apple M1 Pro | AMD Ryzen 9 3900X | |
| Memory types | DDR4 Dual-channel | |
| Memory Size | GB | 128 GB |
| Max. Memory Channels | 2 | |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | - | 51.196 GB/s |
| ECC Support | No | No |
iGPU
| Apple M1 Pro | AMD Ryzen 9 3900X | |
| Integrated Graphics | Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU | - |
| GPU Base Clock | 450 MHz | MHz |
| Shading Units | 2048 | |
| TMUs | 128 | |
| ROPs | 64 | |
| TGP | 30 W | W |
iGPU FLOPS
Misc
| Apple M1 Pro | AMD Ryzen 9 3900X | |
| Official site | Apple M1 Pro official page | AMD Ryzen 9 3900X official page |
| PCI Express Version | ||
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