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AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT vs Apple M4 (8-CPU)

Last updated: 2026-07-02

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 9 5900XT

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4 (8-CPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT

Rank 2 - 42 %

Apple M4 (8-CPU)

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

16C / 32T · 4.80 GHz

98 pts

8C / 8T · 4.46 GHz

175 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

16C / 32T · 4.80 GHz

1,483 pts

8C / 8T · 4.46 GHz

742 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

16C / 32T · 4.80 GHz

1,639 pts

8C / 8T · 4.46 GHz

2,125 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

16C / 32T · 4.40 GHz

27,966 pts

8C / 8T · 0.91 GHz

9,980 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

16C / 32T · 4.80 GHz

2,199

8C / 8T · 4.46 GHz

3,767

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

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT	Apple M4 (8-CPU)
Family	AMD Ryzen 9 (43)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	AMD Ryzen 5000 (17)	Apple M4 (7)
Architecture	Vermeer (Zen 3)	M4
Technology	7 nm	3 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	AM4 (PGA 1331)
Predecessor	AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT	Apple M3
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT	Apple M4 (8-CPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	16 / 32	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	16x 3.30 - 4.80 GHz	4x Donan P-Core 0.91 - 4.46 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		4x Donan E-Core 0.90 - 2.85 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB	20.00 MB
L3-Cache	64.00 MB
Overclocking	✓	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT	Apple M4 (8-CPU)
GPU name	no iGPU	Apple M4 (8 Core)
GPU frequency		0.34 - 1.58 GHz
CUs / Shader	/	128 / 1024
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays		3
Max. GPU Memory		24 GB
Technology		3 nm
Release date		Q4/2024

NPU AI performance

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT	Apple M4 (8-CPU)
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 38 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT	Apple M4 (8-CPU)
Memory	DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)	LPDDR5X-7500 (120.0 GB/s)
Max. Memory	128 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 9 5900XT	Apple M4 (8-CPU)
TDP	105 W	18 W
TDP (PL2)	142 W
TDP up
TDP down		5 W
T. junction max.	90 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT	Apple M4 (8-CPU)
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	macOS, iPadOS
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv9.2-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation, AVX2, SME
Release date	Q3/2024	Q4/2024
Release price	349 $
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT is 4.6 stars (111 ratings), while Apple M4 (8-CPU) has received 4.9 stars (189 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT
16C / 32T · 3.30 - 4.80 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M4 (8-CPU)
8C / 8T · 0.91 - 4.46 GHz

★★★★★