Apple M1 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800HS
Apple M1
► remove from comparisonThe Apple M1 is a System on a Chip (SoC) from Apple that is found in the late 2020 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro 13, and Mac Mini. It offers 8 cores divided in four performance cores and four power-efficiency cores. The big cores offer 192 KB instruction cache, 128 KB data cache, and 12 MB shared L2 cache. According to Apple the performance of these cores should be better than anything on the market (in late 2020). The four efficiency cores are a lot smaller and offer only 128 KB instruction cache, 64 KB data cache, and 4 MB shared cache. The efficiency cores (E cluster) clock with 600 - 2064 MHz, the performance cores (P cluster) with 600 - 3204 MHz.
The M1 is available in two TDP variants, a passive cooled 10 Watt variant for the MacBook Air and an active cooled faster variant for the MacBook Pro 13 and Mac Mini. Those should offer a better-sustained performance according to Apple.
The integrated graphics card in the M1 offers 8 cores (7 cores in the entry MacBook Air) and a peak performance of 2.6 teraflops. Apple claims that it is faster than any other iGPU at the time of announcement.
Furthermore, the SoC integrates a fast 16 core neural engine with a peak performance of 11 TOPS (for AI hardware acceleration), a secure enclave (e.g., for encryption), a unified memory architecture, Thunderbolt / USB 4 controller, an ISP, and media de- and encoders.
The Apple M1 includes 16 billion transistors (up from the 10 billion of the A12Z Bionic and therefore double the amount of a Tiger Lake-U chip like the i7-1185G7) and is manufactured in 5nm at TSMC.
AMD Ryzen 7 5800HS
► remove from comparisonThe AMD Ryzen 7 5800HS is a processor for big (gaming) laptops based on the Cezanne generation. The R7 5800H integrates all eight cores based on the Zen 3 microarchitecture. They are clocked at 2.8 (guaranteed base clock) to 4.4 GHz (Turbo) and support SMT for a total of 16 threads. The chip is manufactured on the modern 7 nm TSMC process. Compared to the 5800H (up to 54 W), the 5800HS is configured to a TDP of 35W.
The new Zen 3 microarchitecture offers a significantly higher IPC (instructions per clock) compared to Zen 2. For desktop processors AMD claims 19 percent on average and in applications reviews showed around 12% gains at the same clock speed.
In addition to the eight CPU cores, the APU also integrates a Radeon RX Vega 8 integrated graphics adapter with 8 CUs (512 shaders) at up to 2,000 MHz. The dual channel memory controller supports dual-channel DDR4-3200 and quad-channel LPDDR4-4266 energy efficient RAM. Furthermore, 16 MB level 3 cache (up from 8 MB at the 4800U) can be found on the chip.
Performance
While we have not tested a single system built around the 5800HS as of August 2023, we have tested several laptops featuring the 5800H, a chip with very similar specs (Cezanne, 8 cores, 16 threads, up to 4.4 GHz). Based on that, we fully expect the 5800HS to be just slightly slower than the Core i5-12500H, Core i7-11800H, Core i7-12650H, Core i9-11950H and also the AMD Ryzen 9 4900H, as far as multi-thread benchmark scores are concerned. Which is pretty damn fast, as of late 2022.
Your mileage may vary depending on how competent the cooling solution of your system is, and how high the CPU power limits are.
Power consumption
The Ryzen has a default TDP, also known as the long-term power limit, of 35 W. A proper cooling solution is a must for a CPU like this.
This Zen 2-based APU is built with TSMC's 7 nm process for average, as of mid 2023, energy efficiency.
Model | Apple M1 | AMD Ryzen 7 5800HS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Series | Apple Apple M-Series | AMD Cezanne (Zen 3, Ryzen 5000) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Series: Cezanne (Zen 3, Ryzen 5000) Cezanne-HS (Zen 3) |
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Clock | 2064 - 3220 MHz | 2800 - 4400 MHz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
L1 Cache | 2 MB | 512 KB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
L2 Cache | 16 MB | 4 MB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
L3 Cache | 8 MB | 16 MB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cores / Threads | 8 / 8 | 8 / 16 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Transistors | 16000 Million | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Technology | 5 nm | 7 nm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Features | ARMv8 Instruction Set | DDR4-3200/LPDDR4-4266 RAM, PCIe 3, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
iGPU | Apple M1 8-Core GPU | AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) ( - 2000 MHz) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Architecture | ARM | x86 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Codename | Cezanne-HS (Zen 3) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TDP | 35 Watt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
max. Temp. | 105 °C | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Socket | FP6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manufacturer | www.amd.com |