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

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 - 89 %

Apple M1 (7-GPU)

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 61 %

Apple M1 (7-GPU)

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,369

8C / 16T · 5.20 GHz

2,617

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

8,576

8C / 16T · 4.00 GHz

12,447

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

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,742

8C / 16T · 5.20 GHz

1,974

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

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,650

8C / 16T · 4.00 GHz

11,600

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M1 (7 Core)

2,290

AMD Radeon 780M

4,357

AI performance (NPU)

8C / 8T · 0.60 GHz

11.0 TOPS

8C / 16T · 4.00 GHz

10.0 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

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 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 (7-GPU)	AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS
Family	Apple M series (38)	AMD Ryzen 9 (43)
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		AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS
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 4.00 - 5.20 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 (7-GPU)	AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS
GPU name	Apple M1 (7 Core)	AMD Radeon 780M
GPU frequency	0.39 - 1.30 GHz	0.80 - 2.80 GHz
CUs / Shader	112 / 896	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 (7-GPU)	AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS
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 (7-GPU)	AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS
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 (7-GPU)	AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS
TDP	18 W	54 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up	25 W
TDP down	10 W	35 W
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS
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	Q1/2023
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 (7-GPU) is 4.7 stars (71 ratings), while AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS has received 2.9 stars (333 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

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

★★★★★

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

★★★★★