amd ryzen 9 5900h vs apple m1 max

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We compared two CPUs Apple M1 Max (Laptop) 10-cores against AMD Ryzen 9 5900H (Laptop) 8-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

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 Max and AMD Ryzen 9 5900H
Advantages of Apple M1 Max
  • Newer released 0 years later
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • Has 32 MB larger L3 cache size
  • More modern manufacturing process – 5 versus 7
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 5900H

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
m1 max +4%
1544
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
12507
13021
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
m1 max +14%
3872
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
m1 max +7%
22551
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
m1 max +15%
1800
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
m1 max +32%
12695

Specifications

Full technical specification of m1 max and ryzen 9 5900h

General

Apple M1 Max AMD Ryzen 9 5900H
Vendor Apple AMD
Released October 18 2021 January 7 2021
Type Laptop Laptop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Cezanne U
Socket FP6
Integrated GPU Apple M1 Max 32-Core GPU AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000)

Performance

Apple M1 Max AMD Ryzen 9 5900H
Cores 10 8
Threads 10 16
Base Frequency GHz 3.3 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency GHz 4.6 GHz
L1 Cache 2.9 MB 512 KB
L2 Cache 28 MB 4 MB
L3 Cache 48 MB 16 MB

Power

Apple M1 Max AMD Ryzen 9 5900H
Fabrication process 5 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) W 45 W

Memory support

Apple M1 Max AMD Ryzen 9 5900H
Memory types
Memory Size GB GB
Max. Memory Channels
Max. Memory Bandwidth - -
ECC Support No No

iGPU

Apple M1 Max AMD Ryzen 9 5900H
Integrated Graphics Apple M1 Max 32-Core GPU AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000)
GPU Base Clock 450 MHz MHz
Shading Units 4096 512
TMUs 256 32
ROPs 128 8
TGP 60 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
10.4 TFLOPS
TFLOPS

Misc

Apple M1 Max AMD Ryzen 9 5900H
Official site Apple M1 Max official page AMD Ryzen 9 5900H official page
PCI Express Version
PCI Express Lanes

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: AMD Ryzen 9 5900H or Apple M1 Max?