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Apple M2 Pro (12-CPU 19-GPU) vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Last updated: 2026-07-02

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 93 %

Apple M2 Pro (12-CPU 19-GPU)

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 65 %

Apple M2 Pro (12-CPU 19-GPU)

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Cinebench 2026 Single-Thread
Single-core performance

12C / 12T · 3.50 GHz

478 pts

12C / 24T · 5.40 GHz

490 pts

Cinebench 2026 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

12C / 12T · 3.50 GHz

4,120 pts

12C / 24T · 5.40 GHz

6,433 pts

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

12C / 12T · 3.50 GHz

122 pts

12C / 24T · 5.40 GHz

116 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

12C / 12T · 3.50 GHz

1,025 pts

12C / 24T · 5.40 GHz

1,632 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

12C / 12T · 3.50 GHz

1,695 pts

12C / 24T · 5.40 GHz

1,964 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

12C / 12T · 3.50 GHz

14,855 pts

12C / 24T · 4.70 GHz

28,905 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

12C / 12T · 3.50 GHz

2,689

12C / 24T · 5.40 GHz

2,798

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

12C / 12T · 3.50 GHz

14,207

12C / 24T · 4.70 GHz

16,832

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

12C / 12T · 3.50 GHz

1,874

12C / 24T · 5.40 GHz

2,206

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

12C / 12T · 3.50 GHz

15,506

12C / 24T · 4.70 GHz

21,140

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M2 Pro (19 Core)

6,745

AMD Radeon Graphics (Raphael)

563

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

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 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 M2 Pro (12-CPU 19-GPU)	AMD Ryzen 9 7900
Family	Apple M series (38)	AMD Ryzen 9 (43)
CPU group	Apple M2 (8)	AMD Ryzen 7000 (18)
Architecture	M2	Raphael (Zen 4)
Technology	5 nm	5 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket		AM5 (LGA 1718)
Predecessor	Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)	AMD Ryzen 9 5900
Successor	Apple M3 Pro (12-CPU 18-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M2 Pro (12-CPU 19-GPU)	AMD Ryzen 9 7900
CPU Cores / Threads	12 / 12	12 / 24
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	8x Avalanche 0.66 - 3.50 GHz	12x Zen 4 3.70 - 5.40 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Blizzard 0.60 - 2.42 GHz
L2-Cache	36.00 MB	12.00 MB
L3-Cache		64.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✓

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M2 Pro (12-CPU 19-GPU)	AMD Ryzen 9 7900
GPU name	Apple M2 Pro (19 Core)	AMD Radeon Graphics (Raphael)
GPU frequency	0.45 - 1.40 GHz	0.40 - 2.20 GHz
CUs / Shader	304 / 2432	2 / 128
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	8 GB
Technology	5 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q1/2023	Q3/2022

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M2 Pro (12-CPU 19-GPU)	AMD Ryzen 9 7900
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M2 Pro (12-CPU 19-GPU)	AMD Ryzen 9 7900
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)	DDR5-5200 (83.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	32 GB	128 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe	4.0	5.0 x 24
PCIe Bandwidth		94.5 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M2 Pro (12-CPU 19-GPU)	AMD Ryzen 9 7900
TDP	40 W	65 W
TDP (PL2)		88 W
TDP up		170 W
TDP down
T. junction max.	100 °C	95 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M2 Pro (12-CPU 19-GPU)	AMD Ryzen 9 7900
Chip design	Monolithic	Chiplet
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	Q1/2023	Q1/2023
Release price		429 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

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Apple M2 Pro (12-CPU 19-GPU)
12C / 12T · 0.66 - 3.50 GHz

★★★★★

AMD Ryzen 9 7900
12C / 24T · 3.70 - 5.40 GHz

★★★★★