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AMD Ryzen 5 5500 vs Apple M3

Last updated: 2026-07-05

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 64 %

AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M3

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 84 %

AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M3

Cinebench 2026 Single-Thread
Single-core performance

6C / 12T · 4.20 GHz

329 pts

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

557 pts

Cinebench 2026 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 12T · 4.20 GHz

2,267 pts

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

2,672 pts

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 12T · 4.20 GHz

82 pts

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

137 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 12T · 4.20 GHz

582 pts

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

659 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 12T · 4.20 GHz

1,396 pts

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

1,965 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 12T · 3.60 GHz

10,940 pts

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

10,437 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 12T · 4.20 GHz

1,928

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

3,125

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 12T · 3.60 GHz

8,027

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

11,863

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

6C / 12T · 4.20 GHz

1,355

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

2,150

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

6C / 12T · 3.60 GHz

5,979

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

10,450

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

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

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 5 5500	Apple M3
Family	AMD Ryzen 5 (100)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	AMD Ryzen 5000G (17)	Apple M3 (6)
Architecture	Cezanne (Zen 3)	M3
Technology	7 nm	3 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	AM4 (PGA 1331)
Predecessor		Apple M2
Successor		Apple M4

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 5 5500	Apple M3
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 12	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	6x 3.60 - 4.20 GHz	4x Ibiza P-Core 0.70 - 4.06 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		4x Ibiza E-Core 0.74 - 2.75 GHz
L2-Cache	3.00 MB	20.00 MB
L3-Cache	16.00 MB
Overclocking	✓	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 5 5500	Apple M3
GPU name	no iGPU	Apple M3 (10 Core)
GPU frequency		0.39 - 1.40 GHz
CUs / Shader	/	160 / 1280
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays		2
Max. GPU Memory		24 GB
Technology		3 nm
Release date		Q4/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 5 5500	Apple M3
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 35 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 5 5500	Apple M3
Memory	DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	64 GB	24 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 24	4.0
PCIe Bandwidth	23.6 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 5 5500	Apple M3
TDP	65 W	22 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down	45 W	15 W
T. junction max.	95 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 5 5500	Apple M3
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	macOS, iPadOS
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q2/2022	Q4/2023
Release price	159 $
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of AMD Ryzen 5 5500 is 4.3 stars (298 ratings), while Apple M3 has received 4.6 stars (1640 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

AMD Ryzen 5 5500
6C / 12T · 3.60 - 4.20 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M3
8C / 8T · 0.70 - 4.06 GHz

★★★★★