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Apple M1 vs AMD Ryzen 7 6800H

53 out of 100
Apple M1
VS
51 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 7 6800H
Apple M1
AMD Ryzen 7 6800H

We compared two 8-core laptop CPUs: the 3.2 GHz Apple M1 against the 3.2 GHz AMD Ryzen 7 6800H. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Performance
  4. Specs
  5. Comments

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 6800H and M1
Advantages of Apple M1
  • 27% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2410 vs 1891 points
  • More modern manufacturing process – 5 versus 6 nanometers
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 7 6800H
  • Supports up to 64 GB DDR5-4800 RAM
  • More powerful AMD Radeon 680M integrated graphics: 3.4 vs 2.6 TFLOPS
  • Newer - released 1 year and 2 months later
  • Around 8.55 GB/s (13%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Apple M1
vs
Ryzen 7 6800H

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Apple M1 +26%
110
Ryzen 7 6800H
87
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Apple M1
525
Ryzen 7 6800H +36%
713
Cinebench 2026 (Single) - 437
Cinebench 2026 (Multi) - 3117
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GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple M1 +27%
2410
Ryzen 7 6800H
1891
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple M1
8547
Ryzen 7 6800H +14%
9712
File compression 941 MB/sec 944.9 MB/sec
Clang compilation 68.2 Klines/sec 68.6 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 192.4 pages/sec 196.3 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 211.9 Mpixels/sec 295.8 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 250.8 pages/sec 194.5 pages/sec
Background blur 34.1 images/sec 46 images/sec
Photo processing 60.9 images/sec 84.4 images/sec
Ray tracing 9.74 Mpixels/sec 17.9 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 760 & 1144 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Apple M1 +15%
3673
Ryzen 7 6800H
3185
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Apple M1
14123
Ryzen 7 6800H +61%
22711
Integer math 33.2 GOps/sec 84 GOps/sec
Floating point math 35.5 GOps/sec 47.3 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 141M Primes/sec 57M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 21M Strings/sec 30.2M Strings/sec
Data encryption 8.5 GBytes/sec 17.9 GBytes/sec
Data compression 168 MBytes/sec 289.4 MBytes/sec
Physics 1359 Frames/sec 1027 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 7B Matrices/sec 19.8B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 10702 & 3926 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 37.5 PPW 15.8 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 610.5 PPW 215.8 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 1008.8 PPW 504.7 PPW
Blender / Watt 6.81 PPW -
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Apple M1
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-25 -> op1Geekbench 6 CPU2273 / 7967
πŸ“˜ 2026-08-24 -> op1Geekbench 6 CPU2420 / 8793
πŸ“˜ 2026-03-06 (gaR)Geekbench 6 CPU2396 / 8763
πŸ“˜ 2025-04-11 (Ario)Geekbench 6 CPU2395 / 8820
πŸ“˜ 2025-04-11 (Ario)Cinebench 2024110 / 465
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AMD Ryzen 7 6800H
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-07-03 (Sarfraz)Cinebench 2024434 / 2815
πŸ“˜ 2026-04-01 (Ronak Sarkar)Cinebench 2026437 / 3117
πŸ“˜ 2025-03-09 (Lex)Cinebench 202442 / 391
πŸ“˜ 2025-01-12 (Edu)Cinebench 202487 / 713
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Specifications

Full technical specification of Apple M1 and AMD Ryzen 7 6800H

General

Vendor Apple Amd
Released November 20, 2020 January 4, 2022
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set ARMv8 x86-64
Codename Apple M1 Zen 3+ (Rembrandt)
Integrated GPU Apple M1 GPU Radeon 680M
Rival Equivalent - - Intel Core i7 12800H
Successor - Apple M5 (10-Core) -
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#111th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 8
P-Threads 4 16
Base Frequency (P) 3.2 GHz 3.2 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) - 4.7 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 4 -
E-Threads 4 -
Base Frequency (E) 2.1 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 8 8
Total Threads 8 16
Bus Frequency - 100 MHz
Multiplier - 32x
L1 Cache 192K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 12MB (shared) 512K (per core)
L3 Cache - 16MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Transistors 16 billions -
Fabrication Process 5 nm 6 nm
TDP (PL1) 14 W 45 W
Socket Apple M-Socket FP7
Peak Temperature - 95Β°C
Laptop processors ranking (172nd and 193rd place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Apple M1 GPU AMD Radeon 680M
GPU Base Clock 450 MHz 400 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1278 MHz 2200 MHz
Shading Units 1024 768
TMUs 64 48
ROPs 32 32
Execution Units 128 12
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
Apple M1
2.6 TFLOPS
Ryzen 7 6800H +31%
3.4 TFLOPS
More info: Radeon 680M compared to Apple M1 GPU (8-core)

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR4X-4266 - DDR5-4800
- LPDDR5-6400
Max. Memory Size 16 GB 64 GB
Memory Channels 8 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 68.25 GB/s 76.8 GB/s
ECC Support No Yes

Misc

Official Site - AMD Ryzen 7 6800H official page
PCI Express Version 4.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes - 20

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Comments

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