Apple M2 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800HS Creator Edition. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Apple M2 AMD Ryzen 5000H
• Family
  Apple M series AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  2 4
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile

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
  3.5 GHz 3.2 GHz
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) normal
• CPU Cores
  8 8
• CPU Threads
  8 16
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  No turbo 4.6 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  No turbo 3.8 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.

• DirectX Version
  - 12
• Execution units
  128 8
• Generation
  2 9
• GPU Frequency
  3500 MHz 1750 MHz
• GPU name
  Apple M2 (8 Core) AMD Radeon 8 Graphics (Renoir)
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  16 GB 2 GB
• Release date
  Q1/2022 Q1/2020
• Shader
  0 512
• Technology
  5 nm 7 nm

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

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

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

• ECC
  No No
• Max. Memory
  16 GB 64 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  LPDDR5-5500 DDR4-3200LPDDR4-4266
• PCIe lanes
  - 12
• PCIe version
  4.0 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

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

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  - 105 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  15 W 45 W
• TDP down
  10 W -
• TDP up
  20 W 54 W

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

• Architecture
  M2 Cezanne (Zen 3)
• 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
  16 MB 4 MB
• L3-Cache
  - 16 MB
• Release date
  Q1/2022 Q3/2021
• Socket
  - FP6
• Technology
  5 nm 7 nm
• Virtualization
  None AMD-V, SVM