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AMD Ryzen 9 7900 vs Apple M3

Last updated: 2026-07-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 94 %

AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M3

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Rank 2 - 47 %

Apple M3

Cinebench 2026 Single-Thread
Single-core performance

12C / 24T · 5.40 GHz

490 pts

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

557 pts

Cinebench 2026 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

12C / 24T · 5.40 GHz

6,433 pts

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

2,672 pts

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

12C / 24T · 5.40 GHz

116 pts

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

137 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

12C / 24T · 5.40 GHz

1,632 pts

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

659 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

12C / 24T · 5.40 GHz

1,964 pts

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

1,965 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

12C / 24T · 4.70 GHz

28,905 pts

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

10,437 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

12C / 24T · 5.40 GHz

2,798

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

3,125

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

12C / 24T · 4.70 GHz

16,832

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

11,863

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

12C / 24T · 5.40 GHz

2,206

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

2,150

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

12C / 24T · 4.70 GHz

21,140

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

10,450

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

AMD Radeon Graphics (Raphael)

563

Apple M3 (10 Core)

3,550

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

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 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 9 7900	Apple M3
Family	AMD Ryzen 9 (43)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	AMD Ryzen 7000 (18)	Apple M3 (6)
Architecture	Raphael (Zen 4)	M3
Technology	5 nm	3 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	AM5 (LGA 1718)
Predecessor	AMD Ryzen 9 5900	Apple M2
Successor		Apple M4

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 9 7900	Apple M3
CPU Cores / Threads	12 / 24	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	12x Zen 4 3.70 - 5.40 GHz	4x Ibiza P-Core 0.70 - 4.06 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		4x Ibiza E-Core 0.74 - 2.75 GHz
L2-Cache	12.00 MB	20.00 MB
L3-Cache	64.00 MB
Overclocking	✓	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 9 7900	Apple M3
GPU name	AMD Radeon Graphics (Raphael)	Apple M3 (10 Core)
GPU frequency	0.40 - 2.20 GHz	0.39 - 1.40 GHz
CUs / Shader	2 / 128	160 / 1280
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays	3	2
Max. GPU Memory	8 GB	24 GB
Technology	5 nm	3 nm
Release date	Q3/2022	Q4/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 9 7900	Apple M3
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 35 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 9 7900	Apple M3
Memory	DDR5-5200 (83.2 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	128 GB	24 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	Yes	No
PCIe	5.0 x 24	4.0
PCIe Bandwidth	94.5 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 9 7900	Apple M3
TDP	65 W	22 W
TDP (PL2)	88 W
TDP up	170 W
TDP down		15 W
T. junction max.	95 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 9 7900	Apple M3
Chip design	Chiplet	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,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q1/2023	Q4/2023
Release price	429 $
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 7900 is 3.1 stars (327 ratings), while Apple M3 has received 4.6 stars (1641 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

AMD Ryzen 9 7900
12C / 24T · 3.70 - 5.40 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M3
8C / 8T · 0.70 - 4.06 GHz

★★★★★