Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-GPU) vs AMD Ryzen 7 3800X. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Apple M series AMD Ryzen
• CPU group
  Apple M1 AMD Ryzen 3000
• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server
• Generation
  1 3
• Successor
  -- AMD Ryzen 7 5800X

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.

• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) normal
• Frequency
  3.20 GHz 3.90 GHz
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 4.50 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No Yes

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 Pro (14 Core) no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  1.30 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  224
• Shader
  1792
• Max. GPU Memory
  32 GB --
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  1
• Technology
  5 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2021

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 7 3800X and Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-GPU). Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR5-6400 DDR4-3200
• Max. Memory
  32 GB 128 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• ECC
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-GPU) and AMD Ryzen 7 3800X to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  30 W 105 W
• TDP up
  40 W --
• Tjunction max.
  -- 95 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-GPU) and Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-GPU), virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  28.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  -- 32.00 MB
• Architecture
  M1 Matisse (Zen 2)
• Technology
  5 nm 7 nm
• Virtualization
  None AMD-V, SVM
• Socket
  N/A AM4
• Release date
  Q3/2021 Q3/2019
• Part Number
  APL 1103 --