apple m1 vs amd ryzen 7 3700u

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We compared two CPUs Apple M1 (Desktop) 8-cores against AMD Ryzen 7 3700U (Laptop) 4-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 and AMD Ryzen 7 3700U
Advantages of Apple M1
  • Newer released 1 years later
  • Has 4 more physical cores
  • More modern manufacturing process – 5 versus 12
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 7 3700U
  • 20% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4 GHz vs 3.2 GHz)

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
m1 +39%
1528
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
m1 +51%
7810
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
m1 +46%
3769
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
m1 +50%
14821
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
m1 +50%
1748
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
m1 +66%
8274

Specifications

Full technical specification of m1 and ryzen 7 3700u

General

Apple M1 AMD Ryzen 7 3700U
Vendor Apple AMD
Released November 10 2020 January 6 2019
Type Desktop Laptop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Picasso
Socket FP5
Integrated GPU Apple M1 8-Core GPU AMD Radeon RX Vega 10

Performance

Apple M1 AMD Ryzen 7 3700U
Cores 8 4
Threads 8 8
Base Frequency 2.064 GHz 2.3 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 3.2 GHz 4 GHz
L1 Cache 2 MB 128K (per core)
L2 Cache 16 MB 512K (per core)
L3 Cache 4 MB (shared)

Power

Apple M1 AMD Ryzen 7 3700U
Fabrication process 5 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) W 15 W

Memory support

Apple M1 AMD Ryzen 7 3700U
Memory types DDR4 Dual-channel
Memory Size GB 64 GB
Max. Memory Channels 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth - 38.397 GB/s
ECC Support No Yes

iGPU

Apple M1 AMD Ryzen 7 3700U
Integrated Graphics Apple M1 8-Core GPU AMD Radeon RX Vega 10
GPU Base Clock 450 MHz 300 MHz
Shading Units 1024 640
TMUs 64 40
ROPs 32 8
TGP 15 W 10 W
iGPU FLOPS
m1
2.6 TFLOPS
1.664 TFLOPS

Misc

Apple M1 AMD Ryzen 7 3700U
Official site Apple M1 official page AMD Ryzen 7 3700U official page
PCI Express Version 3
PCI Express Lanes 12

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: AMD Ryzen 7 3700U or Apple M1?