Apple M3 Max vs AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

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Apple M3 Max

AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

We compared two laptop CPUs: Apple M3 Max with 16 cores 4.05GHz 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 M3 Max 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Better graphics card performance

Higher specification of memory (6400 vs 2400)

Larger memory bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 35.76GB/s)

Newer PCIe version (4.0 vs 3.0)

Higher base frequency (4.05GHz vs 2.1GHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 12nm)

AMD Ryzen 5 3550H 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 40W)

Score

Benchmark

Cinebench R23 Single Core

Apple M3 Max +110%

1968

AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

936

Cinebench R23 Multi Core

Apple M3 Max +488%

24163

AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

4108

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple M3 Max +188%

3227

AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

1119

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple M3 Max +478%

21173

AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

3661

Blender

Apple M3 Max +641%

415

AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

56

Passmark CPU Single Core

Apple M3 Max +134%

4793

AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

2046

Passmark CPU Multi Core

Apple M3 Max +409%

40041

AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

7865

Apple M3 Max

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AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

General Parameters

Oct 2023

Release Date

Jan 2019

Apple

Manufacturer

AMD

Laptop

Type

Laptop

ARMv8

Instruction Set

x86-64

Apple M3

Core Architecture

Picasso

Apple M-Socket

Socket

FP5

Apple M3 Max GPU (38-core)

Integrated Graphics

Radeon Vega 8

Package

92 billions

Transistor Count

4.9 billions

3 nm

Manufacturing Process

12 nm

40 W

Power Consumption

12-35 W

100°C

Peak Operating Temperature

105 °C

CPU Performance

12

Performance Cores

4

12

Performance Core Threads

8

4.05 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.1 GHz

4.05 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3.7 GHz

4

Efficiency Cores

-

4

Efficiency Core Threads

-

2.75 GHz

Efficiency Core Base Frequency

-

2.57 GHz

Efficiency Core Turbo Frequency

-

16

Total Core Count

4

16

Total Thread Count

8

-

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

40x

Multiplier

21x

192 K per core

L1 Cache

96 K per core

32 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

128 GB

Max Memory Size

32 GB

8

Max Memory Channels

2

409.6 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

1600 MHz

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

1200 MHz

5120

Shader Units

512

320

Texture Units

32

160

Raster Operation Units

8

640

Execution Units

8

-

Power Consumption

65 W

-

Max Resolution

3840x2160 - 60 Hz

16.4 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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