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Apple M1 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

Last updated: 2026-07-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 98 %

Apple M1

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 69 %

Apple M1

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

112 pts

8C / 16T · 5.10 GHz

94 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

509 pts

8C / 16T · 5.10 GHz

722 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,503 pts

8C / 16T · 5.10 GHz

1,755 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,759 pts

8C / 16T · 3.30 GHz

13,450 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,369

8C / 16T · 5.10 GHz

2,445

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

8,576

8C / 16T · 3.30 GHz

10,726

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

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,742

8C / 16T · 5.10 GHz

1,850

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

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,650

8C / 16T · 3.30 GHz

9,612

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M1 (8 Core)

2,610

AMD Radeon 780M

4,201

AI performance (NPU)

8C / 8T · 0.60 GHz

11.0 TOPS

8C / 16T · 3.30 GHz

10.0 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

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	Apple M1	AMD Ryzen 7 7840U
Family	Apple M series (38)	AMD Ryzen 7 (79)
CPU group	Apple M1 (9)	AMD Ryzen 7040 (21)
Architecture	M1	Phoenix (Zen 4)
Technology	5 nm	4 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket		FP8
Predecessor
Successor	Apple M2	AMD Ryzen 7 8840U

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M1	AMD Ryzen 7 7840U
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	8 / 16
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	4x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz	8x Zen 4 3.30 - 5.10 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz
L2-Cache	16.00 MB	8.00 MB
L3-Cache		16.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M1	AMD Ryzen 7 7840U
GPU name	Apple M1 (8 Core)	AMD Radeon 780M
GPU frequency	0.39 - 1.30 GHz	0.80 - 2.70 GHz
CUs / Shader	128 / 1024	12 / 768
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays	2	4
Max. GPU Memory	8 GB	32 GB
Technology	5 nm	4 nm
Release date	Q4/2020	Q1/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M1	AMD Ryzen 7 7840U
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	AMD Ryzen™ AI
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS	AMD dedicated AI XDNA Technology
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M1	AMD Ryzen 7 7840U
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)	LPDDR5X-7500 (120.0 GB/s) LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s) DDR5-5600 (89.6 GB/s) DDR5-4800 (76.8 GB/s)
Max. Memory	16 GB	256 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe	4.0	4.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth		39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M1	AMD Ryzen 7 7840U
TDP	18 W	28 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up	20 W	30 W
TDP down	10 W	15 W
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M1	AMD Ryzen 7 7840U
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	macOS	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512
Release date	Q4/2020	Q2/2023
Release price
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple M1 is 4.5 stars (787 ratings), while AMD Ryzen 7 7840U has received 4.7 stars (109 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M1
8C / 8T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★

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

★★★★★