amd ryzen 9 6900hs vs apple m1 pro

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We compared two CPUs AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS (Laptop) 8-cores against Apple M1 Pro (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 6900HS and Apple M1 Pro
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS
  • Newer released 1 years later
  • 34% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.9 GHz vs 3.22 GHz)
Advantages of Apple M1 Pro
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • Has 8 MB larger L3 cache size
  • More modern manufacturing process – 5 versus 6

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
1556
1544
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
14059
12199
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
m1 pro +12%
1761
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
m1 pro +26%
12547

Specifications

Full technical specification of ryzen 9 6900hs and m1 pro

General

AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS Apple M1 Pro
Vendor AMD Apple
Released January 4 2022 October 18 2021
Type Laptop Laptop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Rembrandt H
Socket FP7
Integrated GPU AMD Radeon 680M Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU

Performance

AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS Apple M1 Pro
Cores 8 10
Threads 16 10
Base Frequency 3.3 GHz 2.064 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 4.9 GHz 3.22 GHz
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 2.9 MB
L2 Cache 512K (per core) 28 MB
L3 Cache 16 MB (shared) 24 MB

Power

AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS Apple M1 Pro
Fabrication process 6 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 W W
Max. temperature 95°C °C

Memory support

AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS Apple M1 Pro
Memory types DDR5-4800
Memory Size GB GB
Max. Memory Channels
Max. Memory Bandwidth - -
ECC Support No No

iGPU

AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS Apple M1 Pro
Integrated Graphics AMD Radeon 680M Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU
GPU Base Clock 2000 MHz 450 MHz
Shading Units 768 2048
TMUs 48 128
ROPs 32 64
TGP 15 W 30 W
iGPU FLOPS
3.686 TFLOPS
5.2 TFLOPS

Misc

AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS Apple M1 Pro
Official site AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS official page Apple M1 Pro official page
PCI Express Version 4
PCI Express Lanes

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: Apple M1 Pro or AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS?