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AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Apple M3

Last updated: 2026-06-05

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 88 %

AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M3

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

Rank 2 - 82 %

Apple M3

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 16T · 5.20 GHz

2,617

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

3,125

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 16T · 4.00 GHz

12,447

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

11,863

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

8C / 16T · 5.20 GHz

1,974

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

2,150

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

8C / 16T · 4.00 GHz

11,600

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

10,450

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

AMD Radeon 780M

4,357

Apple M3 (10 Core)

3,550

AI performance (NPU)

8C / 16T · 4.00 GHz

10.0 TOPS

8C / 8T · 0.70 GHz

35.0 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

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS	Apple M3
Family	AMD Ryzen 9 (43)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	AMD Ryzen 7040 (21)	Apple M3 (6)
Architecture	Phoenix (Zen 4)	M3
Technology	4 nm	3 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket	FP8
Predecessor		Apple M2
Successor	AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS	Apple M4

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS	Apple M3
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 Ibiza P-Core 0.70 - 4.06 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		4x Ibiza E-Core 0.74 - 2.75 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB	20.00 MB
L3-Cache	16.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS	Apple M3
GPU name	AMD Radeon 780M	Apple M3 (10 Core)
GPU frequency	0.80 - 2.80 GHz	0.39 - 1.40 GHz
CUs / Shader	12 / 768	160 / 1280
Raytracing	✓	✓
Max. displays	4	2
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	24 GB
Technology	4 nm	3 nm
Release date	Q1/2023	Q4/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS	Apple M3
AI hardware	AMD Ryzen™ AI	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	AMD dedicated AI XDNA Technology	16 Neural cores @ 35 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS	Apple M3
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 9 7940HS	Apple M3
TDP	54 W	22 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down	35 W	15 W
T. junction max.	100 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS	Apple M3
Chip design	Monolithic	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
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 7940HS is 2.9 stars (333 ratings), while Apple M3 has received 4.6 stars (1638 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

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

★★★★★

Apple M3
8C / 8T · 0.70 - 4.06 GHz

★★★★★