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Apple M1 vs AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS

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 1 - 100 %

Apple M1

Rank 2 - 73 %

AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 89 %

Apple M1

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,503 pts

8C / 16T · 4.30 GHz

1,246 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,759 pts

8C / 16T · 3.90 GHz

11,006 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,369

8C / 16T · 4.30 GHz

1,586

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

8,576

8C / 16T · 3.90 GHz

7,281

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

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,742

8C / 16T · 4.30 GHz

1,207

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

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,650

8C / 16T · 3.90 GHz

7,842

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M1 (8 Core)

2,610

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir)

1,792

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

314.0 s

8C / 16T · 3.90 GHz

208.0 s

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

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 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	Apple M1	AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS
Family	Apple M series (38)	AMD Ryzen 9 (43)
CPU group	Apple M1 (9)	AMD Ryzen 4000H (6)
Architecture	M1	Renoir (Zen 2)
Technology	5 nm	7 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket		FP6
Predecessor
Successor	Apple M2

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M1	AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS
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 3.00 - 4.30 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz
L2-Cache	16.00 MB
L3-Cache		8.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M1	AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS
GPU name	Apple M1 (8 Core)	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir)
GPU frequency	0.39 - 1.30 GHz	0.40 - 1.75 GHz
CUs / Shader	128 / 1024	8 / 512
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	3
Max. GPU Memory	8 GB	8 GB
Technology	5 nm	7 nm
Release date	Q4/2020	Q1/2020

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M1	AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M1	AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)	LPDDR4-4266 (51.2 GB/s) DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	16 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe	4.0	3.0 x 12
PCIe Bandwidth		11.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M1	AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS
TDP	18 W	35 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up	20 W	54 W
TDP down	10 W	35 W
T. junction max.		105 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M1	AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS
Chip design	Monolithic	Chiplet
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, AVX2, FMA3
Release date	Q4/2020	Q2/2020
Release price
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User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple M1 is 4.5 stars (786 ratings), while AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS has received 4.4 stars (8 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M1
8C / 8T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★

AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS
8C / 16T · 3.00 - 4.30 GHz

★★★★★