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AMD FX-8300 vs Apple M1

Last updated: 2026-06-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 30 %

AMD FX-8300

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 46 %

AMD FX-8300

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.20 GHz

517

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,742

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

2,311

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,650

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

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	AMD FX-8300	Apple M1
Family	AMD FX (30)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	AMD FX-8000 (11)	Apple M1 (9)
Architecture	Vishera (Bulldozer)	M1
Technology	32 nm	5 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	AM3+
Predecessor
Successor		Apple M2

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	AMD FX-8300	Apple M1
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	8x 3.30 - 4.20 GHz	4x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		4x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz
L2-Cache		16.00 MB
L3-Cache	8.00 MB
Overclocking	✓	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	AMD FX-8300	Apple M1
GPU name	no iGPU	Apple M1 (8 Core)
GPU frequency		0.39 - 1.30 GHz
CUs / Shader	/	128 / 1024
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays		2
Max. GPU Memory		8 GB
Technology		5 nm
Release date		Q4/2020

NPU AI performance

Wischen	AMD FX-8300	Apple M1
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	AMD FX-8300	Apple M1
Memory	DDR3-1866 (29.9 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory		16 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	Yes	No
PCIe		4.0
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	AMD FX-8300	Apple M1
TDP	95 W	18 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up		20 W
TDP down		10 W
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	AMD FX-8300	Apple M1
Chip design	Unknown	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	macOS
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q2/2013	Q4/2020
Release price
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User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of AMD FX-8300 is 4.1 stars (27 ratings), while Apple M1 has received 4.5 stars (770 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

AMD FX-8300
8C / 8T · 3.30 - 4.20 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M1
8C / 8T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★