amd ryzen 9 5950x vs apple m1 pro

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We compared two CPUs Apple M1 Pro (Laptop) 10-cores against AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (Desktop) 16-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 Pro and AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
Advantages of Apple M1 Pro
  • Newer released 1 years later
  • More modern manufacturing process – 5 versus 7
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
  • Has 6 more physical cores
  • Has 40 MB larger L3 cache size
  • 34% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.9 GHz vs 3.22 GHz)

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
1544
1619
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
12199
26164
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
1761
1837
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
12547
18586

Specifications

Full technical specification of m1 pro and ryzen 9 5950x

General

Apple M1 Pro AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
Vendor Apple AMD
Released October 18 2021 October 8 2020
Type Laptop Desktop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Vermeer
Socket AM4
Integrated GPU Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU -

Performance

Apple M1 Pro AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
Cores 10 16
Threads 10 32
Base Frequency 2.064 GHz 3.4 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 3.22 GHz 4.9 GHz
L1 Cache 2.9 MB 64K (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 5950X
Fabrication process 5 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) W 105 W

Memory support

Apple M1 Pro AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
Memory types DDR4-3200
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 5950X
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
5.2 TFLOPS
TFLOPS

Misc

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

Comments

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