Apple M2 Pro vs AMD Ryzen 5 3500U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Apple M2 AMD Ryzen 3000U
• Family
  Apple M series Ryzen
• Generation
  2 2
• Predecessor
  Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-GPU) -
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Form Factor
  - Laptops / Desktops
• Series
  - Ryzen 3000 Series

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• A-Core
  8x Avalanche -
• A-Core Frequency
  3.5 GHz -
• B-Core
  4x Blizzard -
• B-Core Frequency
  2.8 GHz -
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) normal
• CPU Cores
  12 4
• CPU Threads
  12 8
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Base Frequency
  - 2.1 GHz
• Max. Boost Clock
  - 3.7 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  - 3.7 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  - 3 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
  256 8
• Generation
  2 8
• GPU Frequency
  1400 MHz 1200 MHz
• GPU name
  Apple M2 Pro (16 Core) Radeon Vega 8 Graphics
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  32 GB 2 GB
• Release date
  Q4/2022 Q1/2018
• Shader
  2048 512
• Technology
  5 nm 14 nm
• Graphics Cores
  - 8

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

• AV1
  No 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 5 3500U and Apple M2 Pro. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No Yes
• Max. Memory
  32 GB 32 GB
• Memory Bandwidth
  204.8 GB/s -
• Memory channels
  2 (Dual Channel) 2
• Memory type
  LPDDR5-6400 DDR4-2400
• PCIe
  4.0 PCIe 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  - 12
• PCIe version
  - 3.0
• System Memory Specification
  - 2400

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Apple M2 Pro and AMD Ryzen 5 3500U 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
  100 °C 105 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  45 W 15 W
• TDP down
  - 12 W
• TDP up
  - 35 W
• Configurable TDP
  - 12-35 W
• Default TDP
  - 15 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Apple M2 Pro and AMD Ryzen 5 3500U, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  M2 Picasso (Zen+)
• Chip design
  Chiplet -
• 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
  36 MB 2 MB
• L3-Cache
  - 4 MB
• Operating systems
  macOS, iPadOS Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition / Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition / RHEL x86 64-Bit / Ubuntu x86 64-Bit
• Release date
  Q2/2022 Q1/2019
• Socket
  - FP5
• Technology
  5 nm 12nm
• Virtualization
  Apple Virtualization Framework AMD-V, SVM
• Codename
  - Picasso
• L1-Cache
  - 0.375 MB
• Manufacturer product ID (tray)
  - YM3500C4T4MFG