Apple M4 vs AMD Ryzen 5 3500U

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Apple M4 AMD Ryzen 5 3500U

We compared two laptop CPUs: Apple M4 with 10 cores 4.05GHz and AMD Ryzen 5 3500U 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 M4 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Better graphics card performance

Higher specification of memory (LPDDR5X-7500 vs DDR4-2400)

Larger memory bandwidth (120GB/s vs 35.76GB/s)

Newer PCIe version (4.0 vs 3.0)

Higher base frequency (4.05GHz vs 2.1GHz)

AMD Ryzen 5 3500U 's Advantages

Lower TDP (12W vs 20W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple M4 +313%

3808

AMD Ryzen 5 3500U

920

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple M4 +470%

14538

AMD Ryzen 5 3500U

2547

Apple M4

VS

AMD Ryzen 5 3500U

General Parameters

May 2024

Release Date

Jan 2019

Apple

Manufacturer

AMD

Laptop

Type

Laptop

ARMv9

Instruction Set

x86-64

-

Core Architecture

Picasso

Apple M-Socket

Socket

FP5

Apple M4 GPU

Integrated Graphics

Radeon Vega 8

Package

28 billions

Transistor Count

4.9 billions

3 nm

Manufacturing Process

12 nm

Apple M-Socket

Socket

FP5

20 W

Power Consumption

12-35 W

100°C

Peak Operating Temperature

105 °C

CPU Performance

4

Performance Cores

4

Performance Core Threads

8

4.05 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.1 GHz

-

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3.7 GHz

6

Efficiency Cores

-

6

Efficiency Core Threads

-

2.75 GHz

Efficiency Core Base Frequency

-

10

Total Core Count

4

10

Total Thread Count

8

-

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

40x

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

LPDDR5X-7500

Memory Types

DDR4-2400

24 GB

Max Memory Size

32 GB

2

Max Memory Channels

2

120 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

1280

Shader Units

512

80

Texture Units

32

40

Raster Operation Units

8

160

Execution Units

8

-

Power Consumption

65 W

-

Max Resolution

3840x2160 - 60 Hz

4.1 TFLOPS

Graphics Performance

1.13 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

-

Official Website

AMD Ryzen 5 3500U

4.0

PCIe Version

3.0

-

PCIe Lanes

12

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