amd ryzen 9 6980hs vs apple m1 max

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We compared two CPUs AMD Ryzen 9 6980HS (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 6980HS and Apple M1 Max
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 6980HS
  • Newer released 1 years later
Advantages of Apple M1 Max
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • Has 32 MB larger L3 cache size
  • More modern manufacturing process – 5 versus 6

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
1678
1544
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
14876
12507
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)

Specifications

Full technical specification of ryzen 9 6980hs and m1 max

General

AMD Ryzen 9 6980HS Apple M1 Max
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 Max 32-Core GPU

Performance

AMD Ryzen 9 6980HS Apple M1 Max
Cores 8 10
Threads 16 10
Base Frequency 3.3 GHz GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 5 GHz GHz
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 2.9 MB
L2 Cache 512K (per core) 28 MB
L3 Cache 16 MB (shared) 48 MB

Power

AMD Ryzen 9 6980HS Apple M1 Max
Fabrication process 6 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 W W
Max. temperature 95°C °C

Memory support

AMD Ryzen 9 6980HS Apple M1 Max
Memory types DDR5-4800
Memory Size GB GB
Max. Memory Channels
Max. Memory Bandwidth - -
ECC Support No No

iGPU

AMD Ryzen 9 6980HS Apple M1 Max
Integrated Graphics AMD Radeon 680M Apple M1 Max 32-Core GPU
GPU Base Clock 2000 MHz 450 MHz
Shading Units 768 4096
TMUs 48 256
ROPs 32 128
TGP 15 W 60 W
iGPU FLOPS
3.686 TFLOPS
10.4 TFLOPS

Misc

AMD Ryzen 9 6980HS Apple M1 Max
Official site AMD Ryzen 9 6980HS official page Apple M1 Max official page
PCI Express Version 4
PCI Express Lanes

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: Apple M1 Max or AMD Ryzen 9 6980HS?