Apple M1 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800H. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  Apple M series AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  1 4
• CPU group
  Apple M1 AMD Ryzen 5000H

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  3.20 GHz 3.20 GHz
• CPU Cores
  8 8
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 4.40 GHz
• CPU Threads
  8 16
• Turbo (8 Cores)
  No turbo 3.80 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) normal
• A core
  4x Firestorm --
• B core
  4x Icestorm --

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
  Apple M1 (8 Core) AMD Radeon 8 Graphics (Renoir)
• GPU frequency
  3.20 GHz 1.75 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  128 8
• Shader
  0 512
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Generation
  1 9
• DirectX Version
  12
• Technology
  5 nm 7 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2020 Q1/2020

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

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  Decode No
• AVC
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 7 5800H and Apple M1. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR4X-4266 DDR4-3200
• Max. Memory
  16 GB 64 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  4.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  12

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Apple M1 and AMD Ryzen 7 5800H to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  15 W 45 W
• TDP up
  20 W 80 W
• TDP down
  10 W --
• Tjunction max.
  -- 105 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Apple M1 and Apple M1, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None AMD-V, SVM
• ISA extensions
  Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  16.00 MB 4.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  -- 16.00 MB
• Architecture
  M1 Cezanne (Zen 3)
• Technology
  5 nm 7 nm
• Socket
  N/A FP6
• Release date
  Q4/2020 Q2/2021