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AMD Ryzen 7 7840U vs Apple M2 (8-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-06-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 95 %

AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M2 (8-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

Rank 2 - 78 %

Apple M2 (8-GPU)

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 16T · 5.10 GHz

94 pts

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

120 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 16T · 5.10 GHz

722 pts

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

555 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 16T · 5.10 GHz

1,755 pts

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

1,592 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 16T · 3.30 GHz

13,450 pts

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

8,558 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 16T · 5.10 GHz

2,445

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

2,596

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 16T · 3.30 GHz

10,726

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

10,062

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

8C / 16T · 5.10 GHz

1,850

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

1,874

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

8C / 16T · 3.30 GHz

9,612

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

8,853

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

AMD Radeon 780M

4,201

Apple M2 (8 Core)

2,840

AI performance (NPU)

8C / 16T · 3.30 GHz

10.0 TOPS

8C / 8T · 0.66 GHz

15.8 TOPS

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

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 7 7840U	Apple M2 (8-GPU)
Family	AMD Ryzen 7 (79)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	AMD Ryzen 7040 (21)	Apple M2 (8)
Architecture	Phoenix (Zen 4)	M2
Technology	4 nm	5 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket	FP8
Predecessor		Apple M1
Successor	AMD Ryzen 7 8840U	Apple M3 (8-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 7 7840U	Apple M2 (8-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 16	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	8x Zen 4 3.30 - 5.10 GHz	4x Avalanche 0.66 - 3.50 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		4x Blizzard 0.60 - 2.42 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB	20.00 MB
L3-Cache	16.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 7 7840U	Apple M2 (8-GPU)
GPU name	AMD Radeon 780M	Apple M2 (8 Core)
GPU frequency	0.80 - 2.70 GHz	0.45 - 1.40 GHz
CUs / Shader	12 / 768	128 / 1024
Raytracing	✓	✗
Max. displays	4	2
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	24 GB
Technology	4 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q1/2023	Q2/2022

NPU AI performance

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 7 7840U	Apple M2 (8-GPU)
AI hardware	AMD Ryzen™ AI	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	AMD dedicated AI XDNA Technology	16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 7 7840U	Apple M2 (8-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)	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	256 GB	24 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	Yes	No
PCIe	4.0 x 20	4.0
PCIe Bandwidth	39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 7 7840U	Apple M2 (8-GPU)
TDP	28 W	20 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up	30 W	25 W
TDP down	15 W	10 W
T. junction max.	100 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 7 7840U	Apple M2 (8-GPU)
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	macOS, iPadOS
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	Q2/2023	Q2/2022
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of AMD Ryzen 7 7840U is 4.7 stars (107 ratings), while Apple M2 (8-GPU) has received 4.6 stars (111 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

AMD Ryzen 7 7840U
8C / 16T · 3.30 - 5.10 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M2 (8-GPU)
8C / 8T · 0.66 - 3.50 GHz

★★★★★