Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) vs AMD Ryzen 5 4600H. 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 4000H
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  1 3

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 3.00 GHz
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 4.00 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No

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 (16 Core) AMD Radeon 6 Graphics (Renoir)
• GPU frequency
  1.30 GHz 1.50 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  256 6
• Shader
  2048 384
• Max. GPU Memory
  16 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  1 9
• Technology
  5 nm 7 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2021 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
• VP8
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 5 4600H and Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU). Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

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

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) and AMD Ryzen 5 4600H to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  30 W 45 W
• TDP up
  40 W 54 W
• TDP down
  -- 35 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 105 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) and Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 16-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
  -- 8.00 MB
• Architecture
  M1 Renoir (Zen 2)
• Technology
  5 nm 7 nm
• Virtualization
  None AMD-V, SVM
• Socket
  N/A FP6
• Release date
  Q3/2021 Q1/2020
• Part Number
  APL 1103 --