amd ryzen 9 5980hx vs apple m1 max

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We compared two CPUs AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX (Laptop) 8-cores against Apple M1 Max (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

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 5980HX and Apple M1 Max
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX
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

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
1645
1544
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
m1 max +4%
12507
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
m1 max +13%
3872
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
23642
22551
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
m1 max +18%
1800
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
m1 max +36%
12695

Specifications

Full technical specification of ryzen 9 5980hx and m1 max

General

AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX Apple M1 Max
Vendor AMD Apple
Released January 12 2021 October 18 2021
Type Laptop Laptop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Cezanne H
Socket FP6
Integrated GPU AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) Apple M1 Max 32-Core GPU

Performance

AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX Apple M1 Max
Cores 8 10
Threads 16 10
Base Frequency 3.3 GHz GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 4.8 GHz GHz
L1 Cache 512 KB 2.9 MB
L2 Cache 4 MB 28 MB
L3 Cache 16 MB 48 MB

Power

AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX Apple M1 Max
Fabrication process 7 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 W W

Memory support

AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX Apple M1 Max
Memory types
Memory Size GB GB
Max. Memory Channels
Max. Memory Bandwidth - -
ECC Support No No

iGPU

AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX Apple M1 Max
Integrated Graphics AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) Apple M1 Max 32-Core GPU
GPU Base Clock MHz 450 MHz
Shading Units 512 4096
TMUs 32 256
ROPs 8 128
TGP 15 W 60 W
iGPU FLOPS
10.4 TFLOPS

Misc

AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX Apple M1 Max
Official site AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX official page Apple M1 Max official page
PCI Express Version
PCI Express Lanes

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: Apple M1 Max or AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX?