amd ryzen 9 5950x vs apple m1

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We compared two CPUs AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (Desktop) 16-cores against Apple M1 (Desktop) 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 AMD Ryzen 9 5950X and Apple M1
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
  • Has 8 more physical cores
  • 35% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.9 GHz vs 3.2 GHz)
Advantages of Apple M1
  • Newer released 0 years later
  • More modern manufacturing process – 5 versus 7

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
1619
m1
1528
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
26164
m1
7810
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
m1 +7%
3769
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
46616
m1
14821
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
1837
m1
1748
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
18586
m1
8274

Specifications

Full technical specification of ryzen 9 5950x and m1

General

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Apple M1
Vendor AMD Apple
Released October 8 2020 November 10 2020
Type Desktop Desktop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Vermeer
Socket AM4
Integrated GPU - Apple M1 8-Core GPU

Performance

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Apple M1
Cores 16 8
Threads 32 8
Base Frequency 3.4 GHz 2.064 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 4.9 GHz 3.2 GHz
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 2 MB
L2 Cache 512K (per core) 16 MB
L3 Cache 64 MB
Unlocked Multiplier Yes No

Power

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Apple M1
Fabrication process 7 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 105 W W

Memory support

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Apple M1
Memory types DDR4-3200
Memory Size 128 GB GB
Max. Memory Channels 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 51.196 GB/s -
ECC Support No No

iGPU

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Apple M1
Integrated Graphics - Apple M1 8-Core GPU
GPU Base Clock MHz 450 MHz
Shading Units 1024
TMUs 64
ROPs 32
TGP W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
TFLOPS
m1
2.6 TFLOPS

Misc

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Apple M1
Official site AMD Ryzen 9 5950X official page Apple M1 official page
PCI Express Version 4
PCI Express Lanes

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: Apple M1 or AMD Ryzen 9 5950X?