Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU) vs AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS

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CPU comparison with benchmarks


Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU) CPU1 vs CPU2 AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS
Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU) AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS

CPU comparison

In this CPU comparison, we compare the Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU) and the AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS and use benchmarks to check which processor is faster.

We compare the Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU) 14 core processor released in Q4/2023 with the AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS which has 8 CPU cores and was introduced in Q2/2024.
Apple M series (25) Family AMD Ryzen 9 PRO (4)
Apple M3 (6) CPU group AMD Ryzen 8040 (20)
3 Generation 7
M3 Architecture Hawk Point (Zen 4)
Mobile Segment Mobile
Apple M2 Max (30-GPU) Predecessor AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU) is a 14 core processor with a clock frequency of 0.70 GHz (4.06 GHz). The processor can compute 14 threads at the same time. The AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS clocks with 4.00 GHz (5.20 GHz), has 8 CPU cores and can calculate 16 threads in parallel.

Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU) Characteristic AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS
14 Cores 8
14 Threads 16
hybrid (big.LITTLE) Core architecture normal
No Hyperthreading Yes
No Overclocking ? No
0.70 GHz (4.06 GHz)
10x P-Core
A-Core 4.00 GHz (5.20 GHz)
8x Zen 4
0.74 GHz (2.75 GHz)
4x E-Core
B-Core --

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU) Characteristic AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS
Apple Neural Engine AI hardware AMD Ryzen AI
16 Neural cores @ 35 TOPS AI specifications AMD Ryzen™ AI

Internal Graphics

Graphics (iGPU) integrated into the processor not only enable image output without having to rely on a dedicated graphics solution, but can also efficiently accelerate video playback.

Apple M3 Max (30 Core) GPU AMD Radeon 780M
0.39 GHz GPU frequency 0.80 GHz
1.40 GHz GPU (Turbo) 2.80 GHz
-- GPU Generation 3
3 nm Technology 4 nm
5 Max. displays 4
480 Compute units 12
3840 Shader 768
Yes Hardware Raytracing Yes
No Frame Generation AMD FSR
96 GB Max. GPU Memory 32 GB
-- DirectX Version 12

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

Apple M3 Max (30 Core) GPU AMD Radeon 780M
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec VP9 Decode
Decode Codec VP8 Decode
Decode Codec AV1 Decode / Encode
Decode Codec AVC Decode
Decode Codec VC-1 Decode
Decode / Encode Codec JPEG Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

Up to 96 GB of memory in a maximum of 3 memory channels is supported by the Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU), while the AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS supports a maximum of 256 GB of memory with a maximum memory bandwidth of 120.0 GB/s enabled.

Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU) Characteristic AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS
LPDDR5-6400 Memory DDR5-4800, DDR5-5600, LPDDR5-6400, LPDDR5X-7500
96 GB Max. Memory 256 GB
3 Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
307.2 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 120.0 GB/s
No ECC Yes
36.00 MB L2 Cache 8.00 MB
-- L3 Cache 16.00 MB
4.0 PCIe version 4.0
-- PCIe lanes 20
-- PCIe Bandwidth 39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

The Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU) has a TDP of 50 W. The TDP of the AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS is 45 W. System integrators use the TDP of the processor as a guide when dimensioning the cooling solution.

Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU) Characteristic AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS
50 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 45 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up 54 W
-- TDP down 35 W
100 °C Tjunction max. 100 °C

Technical details

The Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU) has 36.00 MB cache and is manufactured in 3 nm. The cache of AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS is at 24.00 MB. The processor is manufactured in 4 nm.

Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU) Characteristic AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS
3 nm Technology 4 nm
Chiplet Chip design Monolithic
Armv8-A (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation ISA extensions SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512
-- Socket FP8
Apple Virtualization Framework Virtualization AMD-V, SVM
Yes AES-NI Yes
macOS, iPadOS Operating systems Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Q4/2023 Release date Q2/2024
-- Release price --
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks
Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU) (100%)
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS (88%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks
Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU) (100%)
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS (60%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU) Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU)
14C 14T @ 4.06 GHz
2150 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS
8C 16T @ 5.20 GHz
1974 (92%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU) Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU)
14C 14T @ 3.60 GHz
20961 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS
8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz
11600 (55%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU) Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU)
14C 14T @ 4.06 GHz
3125 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS
8C 16T @ 5.20 GHz
2617 (84%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU) Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU)
14C 14T @ 3.60 GHz
19404 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS
8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz
12447 (64%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU) Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU)
Apple M3 Max (30 Core) @ 1.40 GHz
10650 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS
AMD Radeon 780M @ 2.80 GHz
4357 (41%)

Performance for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. The performance is given in the number (trillions) of arithmetic operations per second (TOPS).
Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU) Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU)
14C 14T @ 0.70 GHz
35 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS
8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz
16 (46%)

Cinebench 2024 (Single-Core)

The Cinebench 2024 benchmark is based on the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxon's 3D program Cinema 4D. The benchmark runs are each 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.
Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU) Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU)
14C 14T @ 4.06 GHz
141 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS
8C 16T @ 5.20 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench 2024 (Multi-Core)

The Multi-Core test of the Cinebench 2024 benchmark uses all cpu cores to render using the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxons Cinema 4D. The benchmark run is 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.
Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU) Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU)
14C 14T @ 4.06 GHz
1373 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS
8C 16T @ 5.20 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU) Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU)
14C 14T @ 4.06 GHz
1968 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS
8C 16T @ 5.20 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU) Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU)
14C 14T @ 3.60 GHz
20983 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS
8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz
0 (0%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU) Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU)
14C 14T @ 3.60 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS
8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz
30995 (100%)

Devices using this processor

Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU) AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS
Apple MacBook Pro 14 (2023)
Apple MacBook Pro 16 (2023)
Unknown

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