AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D vs Apple M2. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 5000 Apple M2
• Family
  Ryzen Apple M series
• Form Factor
  Desktops / Boxed Processor -
• Generation
  4 2
• Segment
  Desktop Mobile
• Series
  Ryzen 5000 Series -

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• A-Core
  - 4x Avalanche
• B-Core
  - 4x Blizzard
• Base Frequency
  3.4 GHz 3.5 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• CPU Cores
  8 8
• CPU Threads
  16 8
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes No
• Max. Boost Clock
  4.5 GHz -
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  4.5 GHz No turbo
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  4.2 GHz No turbo

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  None Apple M2 (8 Core)
• Execution units
  - 128
• Generation
  - 2
• GPU Frequency
  - 3500 MHz
• GPU Turbo
  - No turbo
• Max. displays
  - 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 16 GB
• Release date
  - Q1/2022
• Shader
  - 0
• Technology
  - 5 nm

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No Decode
• H.264 / AVC
  No Conflicting source values: Decode | Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• VP8
  No Decode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple M2 and AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  128 GB 16 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR4 LPDDR5-5500
• PCIe
  PCIe 4.0 -
• PCIe version
  - 4.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D and Apple M2 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Default TDP
  105 W -
• Maximum Operating Temperature
  90 °C -
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  105 W 15 W
• TDP down
  - 10 W
• TDP up
  - 20 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D and Apple M2, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Vermeer (Zen 3) M2
• Codename
  Vermeer -
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
• L2-Cache
  4 MB 16 MB
• L3-Cache
  96 MB -
• Release date
  2022-04-20 Q1/2022
• Socket
  AM4 -
• Technology
  TSMC 7nm FinFET 5 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM None