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AMD Ryzen 5 8540U vs Apple M1 (7-GPU)
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Benchmarks
Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks
Single-core performance
Multi-core performance
Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance
AMD Ryzen 5 8540U
100 %
6C / 12T · 4.90 GHz
Apple M1 (7-GPU)
99 %
8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance
AMD Ryzen 5 8540U
91 %
6C / 12T · 3.20 GHz
Apple M1 (7-GPU)
100 %
8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance
AMD Ryzen 5 8540U
98 %
6C / 12T · 4.90 GHz
Apple M1 (7-GPU)
100 %
8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance
AMD Ryzen 5 8540U
90 %
6C / 12T · 3.20 GHz
Apple M1 (7-GPU)
100 %
8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
AMD Ryzen 5 8540U
56 %
AMD Radeon 740M
Apple M1 (7-GPU)
100 %
Apple M1 (7 Core)
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2,219 entries
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534 entries
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Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries
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PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries
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Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries
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V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries
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CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries
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AI performance (NPU)
218 entries
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Specifications
At a glance
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Wischen
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AMD Ryzen 5 8540U | Apple M1 (7-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| Family | AMD Ryzen 5 (100) | Apple M series (38) |
| CPU group | AMD Ryzen 8040 (22) | Apple M1 (9) |
| Architecture | Hawk Point (Zen 4) | M1 |
| Technology | 4 nm | 5 nm |
| Segment | Notebook | Notebook |
| Socket | FP8 | |
| Predecessor | AMD Ryzen 5 7540U | |
| Successor |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
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Wischen
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AMD Ryzen 5 8540U | Apple M1 (7-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| CPU Cores / Threads | 6 / 12 | 8 / 8 |
| Hyperthreading / SMT | ✓ | ✗ |
| Core architecture | normal | hybrid (big.LITTLE) |
| Core Cluster 1: | 2x Zen 4 3.20 - 4.90 GHz |
4x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz |
| Core Cluster 2: | 4x Zen 4c 3.20 GHz |
4x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz |
| L2-Cache | 6.00 MB | 16.00 MB |
| L3-Cache | 16.00 MB | |
| Overclocking | ✗ | ✗ |
Integrated graphics (iGPU)
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Wischen
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AMD Ryzen 5 8540U | Apple M1 (7-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| GPU name | AMD Radeon 740M | Apple M1 (7 Core) |
| GPU frequency | 0.80 - 2.50 GHz | 0.39 - 1.30 GHz |
| CUs / Shader | 4 / 256 | 112 / 896 |
| Raytracing | ✓ | ✗ |
| Max. displays | 4 | 2 |
| Max. GPU Memory | 32 GB | 8 GB |
| Technology | 4 nm | 5 nm |
| Release date | Q3/2023 | Q4/2020 |
NPU AI performance
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Wischen
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AMD Ryzen 5 8540U | Apple M1 (7-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| AI hardware | Apple Neural Engine | |
| AI specifications | 16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS | |
| NPU + CPU + iGPU |
Memory & PCIe
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Wischen
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AMD Ryzen 5 8540U | Apple M1 (7-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| Memory | LPDDR5X-7500 (120.0 GB/s) LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s) DDR5-5600 (89.6 GB/s) DDR5-4800 (76.8 GB/s) | LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s) |
| Max. Memory | 256 GB | 16 GB |
| Memory channels | 2 | 2 |
| ECC | No | No |
| PCIe | 4.0 x 20 | 4.0 |
| PCIe Bandwidth | 39.4 GB/s |
Thermal Management
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Wischen
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AMD Ryzen 5 8540U | Apple M1 (7-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| TDP | 28 W | 18 W |
| TDP (PL2) | ||
| TDP up | 30 W | 25 W |
| TDP down | 15 W | 10 W |
| T. junction max. | 100 °C |
Technical details
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Wischen
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AMD Ryzen 5 8540U | Apple M1 (7-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| Chip design | Monolithic | Monolithic |
| AES-NI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Operating systems | Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux | macOS |
| Instruction set | x86-64 (64 bit) | Armv8.5-A (64 bit) |
| ISA extensions | SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512 | Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation |
| Release date | Q1/2024 | Q4/2020 |
| Release price | ||
| Documents | Technical data sheet |
User Reviews
Your rating
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