Apple M1 (7-GPU) vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE

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Apple M1 (7-GPU) CPU1 vs CPU2 AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE
Apple M1 (7-GPU) AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE

CPU comparison

Apple M1 (7-GPU) or AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results.

The Apple M1 (7-GPU) has 8 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.20 GHz. Up to 16 GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The Apple M1 (7-GPU) was released in Q4/2020.

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE has 8 cores with 16 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.60 GHz. The CPU supports up to 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE was released in Q2/2021.
Apple M series (23) Family AMD Ryzen 7 (63)
Apple M1 (9) CPU group AMD Ryzen 5000G (14)
1 Generation 4
M1 Architecture Cezanne (Zen 3)
Mobile Segment Desktop / Server
-- Predecessor AMD Ryzen 7 4700G
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Apple M1 (7-GPU) is a 8 core processor with a clock frequency of 0.60 GHz (3.20 GHz). The AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE has 8 CPU cores with a clock frequency of 3.20 GHz (4.60 GHz).

Apple M1 (7-GPU) Characteristic AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE
8 Cores 8
8 Threads 16
hybrid (big.LITTLE) Core architecture normal
No Hyperthreading Yes
No Overclocking ? Yes
0.60 GHz (3.20 GHz)
4x Firestorm
A-Core 3.20 GHz (4.60 GHz)
0.60 GHz (2.06 GHz)
4x Icestorm
B-Core --

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

Apple M1 (7-GPU) Characteristic AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE
Apple Neural Engine AI hardware --
16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

The integrated graphics unit of a processor is not only responsible for the pure image output on the system, but can also significantly increase the efficiency of the system with the support of modern video codecs.

Apple M1 (7 Core) GPU AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir)
0.39 GHz GPU frequency 0.40 GHz
1.30 GHz GPU (Turbo) 2.00 GHz
1 GPU Generation 9
5 nm Technology 7 nm
2 Max. displays 3
112 Compute units 8
896 Shader 512
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
8 GB Max. GPU Memory 8 GB
-- DirectX Version 12

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

Apple M1 (7 Core) GPU AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir)
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec VP9 Decode / Encode
Decode Codec VP8 Decode / Encode
No Codec AV1 No
Decode Codec AVC Decode / Encode
Decode Codec VC-1 Decode
Decode / Encode Codec JPEG Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The Apple M1 (7-GPU) supports a maximum of 16 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE can connect up to 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels.

Apple M1 (7-GPU) Characteristic AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE
LPDDR4X-4266 Memory DDR4-3200
16 GB Max. Memory 64 GB
2 (Dual Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
68.2 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 51.2 GB/s
No ECC No
16.00 MB L2 Cache 4.00 MB
-- L3 Cache 16.00 MB
4.0 PCIe version 3.0
-- PCIe lanes 20
-- PCIe Bandwidth 19.7 GB/s

Thermal Management

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of a processor specifies the required cooling solution. The Apple M1 (7-GPU) has a TDP of 18 W, that of the AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE is 35 W.

Apple M1 (7-GPU) Characteristic AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE
18 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 35 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
25 W TDP up --
10 W TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. 95 °C

Technical details

The Apple M1 (7-GPU) has a 16.00 MB cache, while the AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE cache has a total of 20.00 MB.

Apple M1 (7-GPU) Characteristic AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE
5 nm Technology 7 nm
Chiplet Chip design Monolithic
Armv8.5-A (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation ISA extensions SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
-- Socket AM4 (PGA 1331)
Apple Virtualization Framework Virtualization AMD-V, SVM
Yes AES-NI Yes
macOS Operating systems Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Q4/2020 Release date Q2/2021
-- Release price --
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks
⌀ Multi core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Apple M1 (7-GPU) Apple M1 (7-GPU)
8C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
1742 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE
8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz
1554 (89%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Apple M1 (7-GPU) Apple M1 (7-GPU)
8C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
7650 (93%)
AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE
8C 16T @ 3.20 GHz
8202 (100%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
Apple M1 (7-GPU) Apple M1 (7-GPU)
Apple M1 (7 Core) @ 1.30 GHz
2290 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE
AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir) @ 2.00 GHz
2048 (89%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
Apple M1 (7-GPU) Apple M1 (7-GPU)
8C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
14463 (65%)
AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE
8C 16T @ 3.20 GHz
22203 (100%)

Cinebench 2024 (Single-Core)

The Cinebench 2024 benchmark is based on the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxon's 3D program Cinema 4D. The benchmark runs are each 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.
Apple M1 (7-GPU) Apple M1 (7-GPU)
8C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
112 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE
8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench 2024 (Multi-Core)

The Multi-Core test of the Cinebench 2024 benchmark uses all cpu cores to render using the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxons Cinema 4D. The benchmark run is 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.
Apple M1 (7-GPU) Apple M1 (7-GPU)
8C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
509 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE
8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Apple M1 (7-GPU) Apple M1 (7-GPU)
8C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
1503 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE
8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Apple M1 (7-GPU) Apple M1 (7-GPU)
8C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
7759 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE
8C 16T @ 3.20 GHz
0 (0%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
Apple M1 (7-GPU) Apple M1 (7-GPU)
8C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
2369 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE
8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz
0 (0%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
Apple M1 (7-GPU) Apple M1 (7-GPU)
8C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
8576 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE
8C 16T @ 3.20 GHz
0 (0%)

Blender 3.1 Benchmark

In the Blender Benchmark 3.1, the scenes "monster", "junkshop" and "classroom" are rendered and the time required by the system is measured. In our benchmark we test the CPU and not the graphics card. Blender 3.1 was presented as a standalone version in March 2022.
Apple M1 (7-GPU) Apple M1 (7-GPU)
8C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
117 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE
8C 16T @ 3.20 GHz
0 (0%)

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)

Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.
Apple M1 (7-GPU) Apple M1 (7-GPU)
8C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
314 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE
8C 16T @ 3.20 GHz
0 (0%)

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)

Efficiency of the processor under full load in the Cinebench R23 (multi-core) benchmark. The benchmark result is divided by the average energy required (CPU package power in watts). The higher the value, the more efficient the CPU is under full load.
Apple M1 (7-GPU) Apple M1 (7-GPU)
7,759 CB R23 MC @ 18 W
431 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE
3.20 GHz
0 (0%)

Performance for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. The performance is given in the number (trillions) of arithmetic operations per second (TOPS).
Apple M1 (7-GPU) Apple M1 (7-GPU)
8C 8T @ 0.60 GHz
11 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE AMD Ryzen 7 5700GE
8C 16T @ 3.20 GHz
0 (0%)

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