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Apple M4 vs AMD Ryzen 9 270

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 1 - 100 %

Apple M4

Rank 2 - 71 %

AMD Ryzen 9 270

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 83 %

Apple M4

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 9 270

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

9C / 9T · 4.46 GHz

175 pts

8C / 16T · 5.20 GHz

110 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

9C / 9T · 4.46 GHz

860 pts

8C / 16T · 5.20 GHz

1,062 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

9C / 9T · 4.46 GHz

2,125 pts

8C / 16T · 5.20 GHz

1,816 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

9C / 9T · 0.91 GHz

11,575 pts

8C / 16T · 4.00 GHz

17,222 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

9C / 9T · 4.46 GHz

3,767

8C / 16T · 5.20 GHz

2,462

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

9C / 9T · 0.91 GHz

13,295

8C / 16T · 4.00 GHz

11,916

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M4 (10 Core)

4,260

AMD Radeon 780M

4,357

AI performance (NPU)

9C / 9T · 0.91 GHz

38.0 TOPS

8C / 16T · 4.00 GHz

16.0 TOPS

More benchmarks

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

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

AnTuTu 10 Benchmark
25 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 M4	AMD Ryzen 9 270
Family	Apple M series (38)	AMD Ryzen 9 (43)
CPU group	Apple M4 (7)	AMD Ryzen 200 (11)
Architecture	M4	Hawk Point (Zen 4)
Technology	3 nm	4 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket		FP8
Predecessor	Apple M3
Successor	Apple M5

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M4	AMD Ryzen 9 270
CPU Cores / Threads	9 / 9	8 / 16
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	3x Donan P-Core 0.91 - 4.46 GHz	8x Zen 4 4.00 - 5.20 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	6x Donan E-Core 0.90 - 2.85 GHz
L2-Cache	20.00 MB	8.00 MB
L3-Cache		16.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M4	AMD Ryzen 9 270
GPU name	Apple M4 (10 Core)	AMD Radeon 780M
GPU frequency	0.34 - 1.58 GHz	0.80 - 2.80 GHz
CUs / Shader	160 / 1280	12 / 768
Raytracing	✓	✓
Max. displays	3	4
Max. GPU Memory	24 GB	32 GB
Technology	3 nm	4 nm
Release date	Q2/2024	Q1/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M4	AMD Ryzen 9 270
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	AMD Ryzen™ AI
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 38 TOPS	AMD Ryzen™ AI (XDNA) @ 16 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU		39 TOPS

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M4	AMD Ryzen 9 270
Memory	LPDDR5X-7500 (120.0 GB/s)	LPDDR5X-7500 (120.0 GB/s) DDR5-5600 (89.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	8 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 M4	AMD Ryzen 9 270
TDP	20 W	45 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up		54 W
TDP down	15 W	35 W
T. junction max.	100 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M4	AMD Ryzen 9 270
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	macOS, iPadOS	Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	Armv9.2-A (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation, AVX2, SME	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512
Release date	Q2/2024	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 M4 is 4.2 stars (1056 ratings), while AMD Ryzen 9 270 has received 4.7 stars (6 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M4
9C / 9T · 0.91 - 4.46 GHz

★★★★★

AMD Ryzen 9 270
8C / 16T · 4.00 - 5.20 GHz

★★★★★