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AMD EPYC 9965 vs Apple M3 Max (16-CPU 40-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-07-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 49 %

AMD EPYC 9965

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M3 Max (16-CPU 40-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank ?

AMD EPYC 9965

Rank ?

Apple M3 Max (16-CPU 40-GPU)

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

192C / 384T · 3.70 GHz

1,520

16C / 16T · 4.06 GHz

3,125

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	AMD EPYC 9965	Apple M3 Max (16-CPU 40-GPU)
Family	AMD EPYC (147)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	AMD EPYC 9005 (29)	Apple M3 (6)
Architecture	Turin (Zen 5 / Zen 5c)	M3
Technology	4 nm	3 nm
Segment	Server	Notebook
Socket	SP5
Predecessor		Apple M2 Max (30-GPU)
Successor		Apple M4 Max (16-CPU 40-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	AMD EPYC 9965	Apple M3 Max (16-CPU 40-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	192 / 384	16 / 16
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	192x Zen 5c 2.25 - 3.70 GHz	12x Palma P-Core 0.70 - 4.06 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		4x Palma E-Core 0.74 - 2.75 GHz
L2-Cache		36.00 MB
L3-Cache	384.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	AMD EPYC 9965	Apple M3 Max (16-CPU 40-GPU)
GPU name	no iGPU	Apple M3 Max (40 Core)
GPU frequency		0.39 - 1.40 GHz
CUs / Shader	/	640 / 5120
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays		5
Max. GPU Memory		128 GB
Technology		3 nm
Release date		Q4/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	AMD EPYC 9965	Apple M3 Max (16-CPU 40-GPU)
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 35 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	AMD EPYC 9965	Apple M3 Max (16-CPU 40-GPU)
Memory	DDR5-6000 (576.0 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (409.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	6144 GB	128 GB
Memory channels	12	4
ECC	Yes	No
PCIe	5.0 x 128	4.0
PCIe Bandwidth	504.1 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	AMD EPYC 9965	Apple M3 Max (16-CPU 40-GPU)
TDP	500 W	57 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up	500 W
TDP down	450 W
T. junction max.	100 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	AMD EPYC 9965	Apple M3 Max (16-CPU 40-GPU)
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows Server 2022, Linux, Windows 11	macOS, iPadOS
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512, BFLOAT16, VNNI	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q4/2024	Q4/2023
Release price	14813 $
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of AMD EPYC 9965 is 3.9 stars (46 ratings), while Apple M3 Max (16-CPU 40-GPU) has received 4.9 stars (637 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

AMD EPYC 9965
192C / 384T · 2.25 - 3.70 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M3 Max (16-CPU 40-GPU)
16C / 16T · 0.70 - 4.06 GHz

★★★★★