AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Apple M2 Pro 10-Core
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX
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The AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX (in leaks also known as R9 5980H is a processor for big (gaming) laptops based on the Cezanne generation. The R9 5980HX integrates all eight cores based on the Zen 3 microarchitecture. They are clocked at 3.3 (guaranteed base clock) to 4.8 GHz (Turbo) and support SMT / Hyperthreading (16 threads). The chip is manufactured in the modern 7 nm process at TSMC. The "X" in the name indicates the overclocking capabilities of the CPU.
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.
With the increased clock speed and IPC improvements thanks to Zen 3, the Ryzen 9 5980HX should be clearly faster than the lower clocked Ryzen 9 4900H.
In addition to the eight CPU cores, the APU also integrates a Radeon RX Vega 8 integrated graphics card with 8 CUs and up to 2100 MHz. The dual channel memory controller supports DDR4-3200 and energy efficient LPDDR4-4266 RAM. Furthermore, 16 MB level 3 cache can be found on the chip.
Power consumption
This Ryzen 9 series chip has a default TDP, also known as the long-term power limit, of 45 W. Laptop makers are free to change that value to anything between 35 W and 54 W, with clock speeds and performance changing accordingly as a result. Either way, a powerful cooling solution is a must for a CPU like this.
The R9 5980HX is built with TSMC's 7 nm process for higher than average, as of late 2022, energy efficiency.
Apple M2 Pro 10-Core
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The Apple M2 Pro 10-Core is a System on a Chip (SoC) from Apple that is found in the early 2023 MacBook Pro 14 and Mac Mini entry level models. It offers 10 of the 12 cores available in the chip divided in six performance cores (P-cores) and four power-efficiency cores (E-cores). The E-cores clock with up to 3.4 GHz, the P-Cores up to 3.7 GHz (mostly 3.3 GHz in multi-threaded workloads and 3.4 GHz in single threaded).
The big cores (codename Avalanche) offer 192 KB instruction cache, 128 KB data cache, and 36 MB shared L2 cache (up from 24 MB in the M1 Pro). The four efficiency cores (codename Blizzard) are a lot smaller and offer only 128 KB instruction cache, 64 KB data cache, and 4 MB shared cache. CPU and GPU can both use the 24 MB SLC (System Level Cache).
The unified memory (16 or 32 GB LPDDR5-6400) next to the chip is connected by a 256 Bit memory controller (200 GB/s bandwidth) and can be used by the GPU and CPU.
The performance of the M2 Pro 10-Core should be similar to the old M1 Pro with all 10 cores. The multi-threaded performance should be slower, as the M2 10-core has two p-cores less (and 2 e-cores more) but the single-threaded performance should be better due to the faster clock speed and architectural improvements. The old M1 Pro 8-core should be noticeably slower.
The integrated graphics card in the M1 Pro 10-core offers all 16 of the 19 cores.
Furthermore, the SoC integrates a fast 16 core neural engine (faster than M1 Pro), a secure enclave (e.g., for encryption), a unified memory architecture, Thunderbolt 4 controller, an ISP, and media de- and encoders (including ProRes).
The M2 Pro is manufactured in 5 nm at TSMC (second generation) and integrates 40 billion transistors.
| Model | AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX | Apple M2 Pro 10-Core | ||||||||||||||||
| Codename | Cezanne-HX (Zen 3) | |||||||||||||||||
| Series | AMD Cezanne (Zen 3, Ryzen 5000) | Apple M2 | ||||||||||||||||
| Clock | 3300 - 4800 MHz | 2424 - 3696 MHz | ||||||||||||||||
| L1 Cache | 512 KB | 7.3 MB | ||||||||||||||||
| L2 Cache | 4 MB | 36 MB | ||||||||||||||||
| L3 Cache | 16 MB | 24 MB | ||||||||||||||||
| Cores / Threads | 8 / 16 | 10 / 10 | ||||||||||||||||
| TDP | 54 Watt | |||||||||||||||||
| Technology | 7 nm | 5 nm | ||||||||||||||||
| Die Size | 180 mm2 | |||||||||||||||||
| max. Temp. | 105 °C | |||||||||||||||||
| Socket | FP6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Features | DDR4-3200/LPDDR4-4266 RAM, PCIe 3, MMX (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A, AES, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, SHA | ARMv8 Instruction Set | ||||||||||||||||
| iGPU | AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) ( - 2100 MHz) | Apple M2 Pro 16-Core GPU | ||||||||||||||||
| Architecture | x86 | ARM | ||||||||||||||||
| Announced | ||||||||||||||||||
| Manufacturer | www.amd.com | |||||||||||||||||
| Series: M2 |
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| Transistors | 40000 Million | |||||||||||||||||
| Chip AI | 15.8 TOPS INT8 |
Benchmarks
Average Benchmarks AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX → 100% n=2
Average Benchmarks Apple M2 Pro 10-Core → 140% n=2
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
1 This benchmark is not used for the average calculation
