Apple M2 vs AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

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Apple M2 AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

We compared two laptop CPUs: Apple M2 with 8 cores 3.5GHz and AMD Ryzen 5 3550H with 4 cores 2.1GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

Apple M2 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Better graphics card performance

Higher specification of memory (LPDDR5-6400 vs DDR4-2400)

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

Newer PCIe version (4.0 vs 3.0)

Higher base frequency (3.5GHz vs 2.1GHz)

AMD Ryzen 5 3550H 's Advantages

Lower TDP (12W vs 15W)

Score

Benchmark

Cinebench R23 Single Core

Apple M2 +81%

1701

AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

936

Cinebench R23 Multi Core

Apple M2 +107%

8538

AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

4123

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple M2 +140%

2694

AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

1119

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple M2 +176%

10130

AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

3661

Blender

Apple M2 +147%

151

AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

61

Geekbench 5 Single Core

Apple M2 +113%

1914

AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

898

Geekbench 5 Multi Core

Apple M2 +161%

8942

AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

3423

Passmark CPU Single Core

Apple M2 +92%

3932

AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

2046

Passmark CPU Multi Core

Apple M2 +96%

15485

AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

7865

Apple M2

VS

AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

General Parameters

Jun 2022

Release Date

Jan 2019

Apple

Manufacturer

AMD

Laptop

Type

Laptop

ARMv8

Instruction Set

x86-64

Apple M2

Core Architecture

Picasso

Apple M-Socket

Socket

FP5

Apple M2 GPU

Integrated Graphics

Radeon Vega 8

Package

20 billions

Transistor Count

4.9 billions

5 nm

Manufacturing Process

12 nm

Apple M-Socket

Socket

FP5

15 W

Power Consumption

12-35 W

-

Peak Operating Temperature

105 °C

CPU Performance

4

Performance Cores

4

Performance Core Threads

8

3.5 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.1 GHz

3.4 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3.7 GHz

4

Efficiency Cores

-

4

Efficiency Core Threads

-

2.4 GHz

Efficiency Core Base Frequency

-

8

Total Core Count

4

8

Total Thread Count

8

-

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

-

Multiplier

21x

192 K per core

L1 Cache

96 K per core

16 MB shared

L2 Cache

512 K per core

-

L3 Cache

4 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

Memory Parameters

LPDDR5-6400

Memory Types

DDR4-2400

24 GB

Max Memory Size

32 GB

2

Max Memory Channels

2

102.4 GB/s

Max Memory Bandwidth

35.76 GB/s

No

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Graphics Card Parameters

true

Integrated Graphics

true

500 MHz

GPU Base Frequency

300 MHz

1398 MHz

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

1200 MHz

1024

Shader Units

512

64

Texture Units

32

Raster Operation Units

8

128

Execution Units

8

15 W

Power Consumption

65 W

6016x3384 - 60 Hz

Max Resolution

3840x2160 - 60 Hz

2.86 TFLOPS

Graphics Performance

1.13 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

-

Official Website

AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

4.0

PCIe Version

3.0

-

PCIe Lanes

12

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