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Apple M3 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Last updated: 2026-07-04

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 - 94 %

AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 47 %

Apple M3

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Cinebench 2026 Single-Thread
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

557 pts

12C / 24T · 5.40 GHz

490 pts

Cinebench 2026 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

2,672 pts

12C / 24T · 5.40 GHz

6,433 pts

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

137 pts

12C / 24T · 5.40 GHz

116 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

659 pts

12C / 24T · 5.40 GHz

1,632 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

1,965 pts

12C / 24T · 5.40 GHz

1,964 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

10,437 pts

12C / 24T · 4.70 GHz

28,905 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

3,125

12C / 24T · 5.40 GHz

2,798

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

11,863

12C / 24T · 4.70 GHz

16,832

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

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

2,150

12C / 24T · 5.40 GHz

2,206

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

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

10,450

12C / 24T · 4.70 GHz

21,140

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M3 (10 Core)

3,550

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 M3	AMD Ryzen 9 7900
Family	Apple M series (38)	AMD Ryzen 9 (43)
CPU group	Apple M3 (6)	AMD Ryzen 7000 (18)
Architecture	M3	Raphael (Zen 4)
Technology	3 nm	5 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket		AM5 (LGA 1718)
Predecessor	Apple M2	AMD Ryzen 9 5900
Successor	Apple M4

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M3	AMD Ryzen 9 7900
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	12 / 24
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	4x Ibiza P-Core 0.70 - 4.06 GHz	12x Zen 4 3.70 - 5.40 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Ibiza E-Core 0.74 - 2.75 GHz
L2-Cache	20.00 MB	12.00 MB
L3-Cache		64.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✓

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M3	AMD Ryzen 9 7900
GPU name	Apple M3 (10 Core)	AMD Radeon Graphics (Raphael)
GPU frequency	0.39 - 1.40 GHz	0.40 - 2.20 GHz
CUs / Shader	160 / 1280	2 / 128
Raytracing	✓	✗
Max. displays	2	3
Max. GPU Memory	24 GB	8 GB
Technology	3 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q4/2023	Q3/2022

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M3	AMD Ryzen 9 7900
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 35 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M3	AMD Ryzen 9 7900
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)	DDR5-5200 (83.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	24 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 M3	AMD Ryzen 9 7900
TDP	22 W	65 W
TDP (PL2)		88 W
TDP up		170 W
TDP down	15 W
T. junction max.	100 °C	95 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M3	AMD Ryzen 9 7900
Chip design	Monolithic	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	macOS, iPadOS	Windows 10, 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	Q1/2023
Release price		429 $
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 (1645 ratings), while AMD Ryzen 9 7900 has received 3.1 stars (329 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M3
8C / 8T · 0.70 - 4.06 GHz

★★★★★

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

★★★★★