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AMD Ryzen 9 7940H vs Apple M1 (7-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-06-02

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 9 7940H

Rank 2 - 89 %

Apple M1 (7-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 9 7940H

Rank 2 - 61 %

Apple M1 (7-GPU)

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 16T · 5.20 GHz

2,617

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,369

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 16T · 4.00 GHz

12,447

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

8,576

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

8C / 16T · 5.20 GHz

1,974

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,742

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

8C / 16T · 4.00 GHz

11,600

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,650

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

AMD Radeon 780M

4,357

Apple M1 (7 Core)

2,290

AI performance (NPU)

8C / 16T · 4.00 GHz

10.0 TOPS

8C / 8T · 0.60 GHz

11.0 TOPS

More benchmarks

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

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 9 7940H	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
Family	AMD Ryzen 9 (43)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	AMD Ryzen 7040 (21)	Apple M1 (9)
Architecture	Phoenix (Zen 4)	M1
Technology	4 nm	5 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket	FP8
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 9 7940H	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 16	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	8x Zen 4 4.00 - 5.20 GHz	4x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		4x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB	16.00 MB
L3-Cache	16.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 9 7940H	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
GPU name	AMD Radeon 780M	Apple M1 (7 Core)
GPU frequency	0.80 - 2.80 GHz	0.39 - 1.30 GHz
CUs / Shader	12 / 768	112 / 896
Raytracing	✓	✗
Max. displays	4	2
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	8 GB
Technology	4 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q1/2023	Q4/2020

NPU AI performance

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 9 7940H	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
AI hardware	AMD Ryzen™ AI	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	AMD dedicated AI XDNA Technology	16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 9 7940H	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	Yes	No
PCIe	4.0 x 20	4.0
PCIe Bandwidth	39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 9 7940H	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
TDP	54 W	18 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up		25 W
TDP down	35 W	10 W
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 9 7940H	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	Q1/2023	Q4/2020
Release price
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 7940H is 1.8 stars (102 ratings), while Apple M1 (7-GPU) has received 4.7 stars (72 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

AMD Ryzen 9 7940H
8C / 16T · 4.00 - 5.20 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M1 (7-GPU)
8C / 8T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★