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Apple M2 vs AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS

Last updated: 2026-06-06

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 M2

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 63 %

Apple M2

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS

Cinebench 2026 Single-Thread
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

470 pts

8C / 16T · 5.20 GHz

433 pts

Cinebench 2026 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

2,316 pts

8C / 16T · 5.20 GHz

4,002 pts

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

120 pts

8C / 16T · 5.20 GHz

106 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

555 pts

8C / 16T · 5.20 GHz

975 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

1,592 pts

8C / 16T · 5.20 GHz

1,814 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

8,558 pts

8C / 16T · 4.00 GHz

17,200 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

2,596

8C / 16T · 5.20 GHz

2,617

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

10,062

8C / 16T · 4.00 GHz

12,447

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

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

1,874

8C / 16T · 5.20 GHz

1,974

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

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

8,853

8C / 16T · 4.00 GHz

11,600

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M2 (10 Core)

3,550

AMD Radeon 780M

4,357

AI performance (NPU)

8C / 8T · 0.66 GHz

15.8 TOPS

8C / 16T · 4.00 GHz

16.0 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

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple M2	AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
Family	Apple M series (38)	AMD Ryzen 9 (43)
CPU group	Apple M2 (8)	AMD Ryzen 8040 (22)
Architecture	M2	Hawk Point (Zen 4)
Technology	5 nm	4 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket		FP8
Predecessor	Apple M1	AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS
Successor	Apple M3	AMD Ryzen AI 9 365

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M2	AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	8 / 16
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	4x Avalanche 0.66 - 3.50 GHz	8x Zen 4 4.00 - 5.20 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Blizzard 0.60 - 2.42 GHz
L2-Cache	20.00 MB	8.00 MB
L3-Cache		16.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M2	AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
GPU name	Apple M2 (10 Core)	AMD Radeon 780M
GPU frequency	0.45 - 1.40 GHz	0.80 - 2.80 GHz
CUs / Shader	160 / 1280	12 / 768
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays	2	4
Max. GPU Memory	24 GB	32 GB
Technology	5 nm	4 nm
Release date	Q2/2022	Q1/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M2	AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	AMD Ryzen™ AI
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS	AMD Ryzen™ AI (XDNA) @ 16 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M2	AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 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	24 GB	256 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	4.0	4.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth		39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M2	AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
TDP	20 W	45 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up	30 W	54 W
TDP down	10 W	35 W
T. junction max.	100 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M2	AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	macOS, iPadOS	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	Q2/2022	Q1/2024
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple M2 is 4.4 stars (742 ratings), while AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS has received 2.3 stars (470 ratings).

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Apple M2
8C / 8T · 0.66 - 3.50 GHz

★★★★★

AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
8C / 16T · 4.00 - 5.20 GHz

★★★★★