AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Apple M3

VS

AMD Ryzen 5 3500U

Apple M3

We compared two laptop CPUs: AMD Ryzen 5 3500U with 4 cores 2.1GHz and Apple M3 with 8 cores 4.05GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

Apple M3 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Better graphics card performance

Higher specification of memory (6400 vs 2400)

Larger memory bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 35.76GB/s)

Newer PCIe version (4.0 vs 3.0)

Higher base frequency (4.05GHz vs 2.1GHz)

Larger L3 cache size (64MB vs 4MB)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 12nm)

Lower TDP (20W vs 35W)

Score

Benchmark

Cinebench R23 Single Core

AMD Ryzen 5 3500U

765

Apple M3 +150%

1920

Cinebench R23 Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 5 3500U

2752

Apple M3 +279%

10448

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD Ryzen 5 3500U

920

Apple M3 +227%

3009

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 5 3500U

2547

Apple M3 +363%

11805

Blender

AMD Ryzen 5 3500U

49

Apple M3 +242%

168

Passmark CPU Single Core

AMD Ryzen 5 3500U

1954

Apple M3 +148%

4850

Passmark CPU Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 5 3500U

6987

Apple M3 +180%

19597

AMD Ryzen 5 3500U

VS

Apple M3

General Parameters

Jan 2019

Release Date

Oct 2023

AMD

Manufacturer

Apple

Laptop

Type

Laptop

x86-64

Instruction Set

ARMv8

Picasso

Core Architecture

Apple M3

FP5

Socket

Apple M-Socket

Radeon Vega 8

Integrated Graphics

Apple M3 GPU

Package

4.9 billions

Transistor Count

25 billions

12 nm

Manufacturing Process

3 nm

12-35 W

Power Consumption

20 W

105 °C

Peak Operating Temperature

100°C

CPU Performance

4

Performance Cores

4

8

Performance Core Threads

4

2.1 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

4.05 GHz

3.7 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

4.05 GHz

-

Efficiency Cores

4

-

Efficiency Core Threads

4

-

Efficiency Core Base Frequency

2.75 GHz

-

Efficiency Core Turbo Frequency

2.57 GHz

4

Total Core Count

8

Total Thread Count

8

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

-

21x

Multiplier

40x

96 K per core

L1 Cache

192 K per core

512 K per core

L2 Cache

16 MB shared

4 MB shared

L3 Cache

64 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

Memory Parameters

DDR4-2400

Memory Types

LPDDR5-6400

32 GB

Max Memory Size

24 GB

2

Max Memory Channels

2

35.76 GB/s

Max Memory Bandwidth

102.4 GB/s

Yes

ECC Memory Support

No

Graphics Card Parameters

true

Integrated Graphics

true

300 MHz

GPU Base Frequency

500 MHz

1200 MHz

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

1600 MHz

512

Shader Units

1280

32

Texture Units

80

8

Raster Operation Units

40

8

Execution Units

160

65 W

Power Consumption

-

3840x2160 - 60 Hz

Max Resolution

-

1.13 TFLOPS

Graphics Performance

4.1 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

AMD Ryzen 5 3500U

Official Website

-

3.0

PCIe Version

4.0

12

PCIe Lanes

-

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