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Apple M3 vs AMD Ryzen 7 250

Last updated: 2026-06-04

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 M3

Rank 2 - 80 %

AMD Ryzen 7 250

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 90 %

Apple M3

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 7 250

Cinebench 2026 Single-Thread
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

557 pts

8C / 16T · 5.10 GHz

421 pts

Cinebench 2026 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

2,672 pts

8C / 16T · 5.10 GHz

3,129 pts

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

137 pts

8C / 16T · 5.10 GHz

104 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

659 pts

8C / 16T · 5.10 GHz

848 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

1,965 pts

8C / 16T · 5.10 GHz

1,717 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

10,437 pts

8C / 16T · 3.30 GHz

13,816 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

3,125

8C / 16T · 5.10 GHz

2,440

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

11,863

8C / 16T · 3.30 GHz

8,200

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M3 (10 Core)

3,550

AMD Radeon 780M

4,201

AI performance (NPU)

8C / 8T · 0.70 GHz

35.0 TOPS

8C / 16T · 3.30 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

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple M3	AMD Ryzen 7 250
Family	Apple M series (38)	AMD Ryzen 7 (79)
CPU group	Apple M3 (6)	AMD Ryzen 200 (11)
Architecture	M3	Hawk Point (Zen 4)
Technology	3 nm	4 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket		FP8
Predecessor	Apple M2
Successor	Apple M4

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M3	AMD Ryzen 7 250
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	8 / 16
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	4x Ibiza P-Core 0.70 - 4.06 GHz	8x Zen 4 3.30 - 5.10 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Ibiza E-Core 0.74 - 2.75 GHz
L2-Cache	20.00 MB	8.00 MB
L3-Cache		16.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M3	AMD Ryzen 7 250
GPU name	Apple M3 (10 Core)	AMD Radeon 780M
GPU frequency	0.39 - 1.40 GHz	0.80 - 2.70 GHz
CUs / Shader	160 / 1280	12 / 768
Raytracing	✓	✓
Max. displays	2	4
Max. GPU Memory	24 GB	32 GB
Technology	3 nm	4 nm
Release date	Q4/2023	Q1/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M3	AMD Ryzen 7 250
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	AMD Ryzen™ AI
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 35 TOPS	AMD Ryzen™ AI (XDNA) @ 16 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU		38 TOPS

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M3	AMD Ryzen 7 250
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)	LPDDR5X-7500 (120.0 GB/s) DDR5-5600 (89.6 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 M3	AMD Ryzen 7 250
TDP	22 W	28 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up		30 W
TDP down	15 W	15 W
T. junction max.	100 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M3	AMD Ryzen 7 250
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	macOS, iPadOS	Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512
Release date	Q4/2023	Q1/2024
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 M3 is 4.6 stars (1638 ratings), while AMD Ryzen 7 250 has received 4.2 stars (38 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M3
8C / 8T · 0.70 - 4.06 GHz

★★★★★

AMD Ryzen 7 250
8C / 16T · 3.30 - 5.10 GHz

★★★★★