apple m1 pro vs amd ryzen 5 5500u

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We compared two CPUs Apple M1 Pro (Laptop) 10-cores against AMD Ryzen 5 5500U (Laptop) 6-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 5 5500U
Advantages of Apple M1 Pro
  • Newer released 0 years later
  • Has 4 more physical cores
  • Has 16 MB larger L3 cache size
  • More modern manufacturing process – 5 versus 7
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
  • 20% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4 GHz vs 3.22 GHz)

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
m1 pro +24%
1544
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
m1 pro +42%
12199
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
m1 pro +37%
1761
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
m1 pro +60%
12547

Specifications

Full technical specification of m1 pro and ryzen 5 5500u

General

Apple M1 Pro AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
Vendor Apple AMD
Released October 18 2021 January 7 2021
Type Laptop Laptop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Lucienne U
Socket FP6
Integrated GPU Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

Performance

Apple M1 Pro AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
Cores 10 6
Threads 10 12
Base Frequency 2.064 GHz 2.1 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 3.22 GHz 4 GHz
L1 Cache 2.9 MB 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 28 MB 512K (per core)
L3 Cache 24 MB 8 MB (shared)

Power

Apple M1 Pro AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
Fabrication process 5 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) W 25 W
Max. temperature °C 105°C

Memory support

Apple M1 Pro AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
Memory types DDR4-4266
Memory Size GB 64 GB
Max. Memory Channels
Max. Memory Bandwidth - -
ECC Support No No

iGPU

Apple M1 Pro AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
Integrated Graphics Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU AMD Radeon RX Vega 7
GPU Base Clock 450 MHz 300 MHz
Shading Units 2048 448
TMUs 128 28
ROPs 64 7
TGP 30 W 0 W
iGPU FLOPS
5.2 TFLOPS
1.108 TFLOPS

Misc

Apple M1 Pro AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
Official site Apple M1 Pro official page AMD Ryzen 5 5500U official page
PCI Express Version 3
PCI Express Lanes

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: AMD Ryzen 5 5500U or Apple M1 Pro?