AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7540U vs Apple M1. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  AMD Ryzen 5 PRO Apple M series
• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 7040 Apple M1
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  6 1

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
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• Overclocking
  No No
• Frequency
  3.20 GHz 3.20 GHz

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
  AMD Radeon 740M Graphics Apple M1 (8 Core)
• GPU frequency
  1.20 GHz 3.20 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  2.50 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  4 128
• Shader
  256 0
• Max. GPU Memory
  32 GB 8 GB
• Max. displays
  4 2
• Generation
  10 1
• Technology
  4 nm 5 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2023 Q4/2020

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
• VP9
  Decode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  Decode / Encode Decode
• AVC
  Decode Decode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple M1 and AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7540U. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR5-5600LPDDR5X-7500 LPDDR4X-4266
• Max. Memory
  256 GB 16 GB
• Memory channels
  2 (Dual Channel) 2
• ECC
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7540U and Apple M1 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP up
  -- 20 W
• TDP down
  -- 10 W
• Tjunction max.
  100 °C --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7540U and AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7540U, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Technology
  4 nm 5 nm
• Socket
  FP8 N/A
• L2-Cache
  6.00 MB 16.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  16.00 MB --
• Architecture
  Phoenix (Zen 4) M1
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM None
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512 Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
• Release date
  Q2/2023 Q4/2020