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Apple M1 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS

53 out of 100
Apple M1
VS
61 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS
Apple M1
AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS

We compared two 8-core laptop CPUs: the 3.2 GHz Apple M1 against the 3.8 GHz AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS. 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 7840HS and M1
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS
  • Supports up to 256 GB DDR5-5600 RAM
  • Newer - released 2 years and 2 months later
  • More powerful Radeon 780M integrated graphics: 4.1 vs 2.6 TFLOPS
  • More modern manufacturing process – 4 versus 5 nanometers

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Apple M1
vs
Ryzen 7 7840HS

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Apple M1 +8%
110
Ryzen 7 7840HS
102
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Apple M1
525
Ryzen 7 7840HS +74%
911
Cinebench Scores (#182nd place)
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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
2410
Ryzen 7 7840HS +7%
2577
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple M1
8547
Ryzen 7 7840HS +41%
12085
File compression 941 MB/sec 1120 MB/sec
Clang compilation 68.2 Klines/sec 102.5 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 192.4 pages/sec 217.2 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 211.9 Mpixels/sec 350 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 250.8 pages/sec 251.8 pages/sec
Background blur 34.1 images/sec 59.4 images/sec
Photo processing 60.9 images/sec 87.6 images/sec
Ray tracing 9.74 Mpixels/sec 22.5 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 760 & 753 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Apple M1
3673
Ryzen 7 7840HS +1%
3708
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Apple M1
14123
Ryzen 7 7840HS +100%
28292
Integer math 33.2 GOps/sec 97.1 GOps/sec
Floating point math 35.5 GOps/sec 59 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 141M Primes/sec 87M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 21M Strings/sec 40.4M Strings/sec
Data encryption 8.5 GBytes/sec 20.3 GBytes/sec
Data compression 168 MBytes/sec 340.4 MBytes/sec
Physics 1359 Frames/sec 1362 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 7B Matrices/sec 25.4B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 10702 & 4310 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
Apple M1
95.27
Ryzen 7 7840HS +129%
218.59

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 37.5 PPW 16.9 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 610.5 PPW 223.8 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 1008.8 PPW 523.9 PPW
Blender / Watt 6.81 PPW 4.05 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
Add View all (8)
AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2025-12-08 (Hari)Cinebench 2024104 / 880
πŸ“˜ 2025-07-31 (Safi ullah)Cinebench 2024102 / 911
πŸ“˜ 2025-06-10 (Johns)Cinebench 2024105 / 929
πŸ“˜ 2025-04-05 (KaniastyGucio)Cinebench 2024100 / 910
πŸ“˜ 2024-12-09 (Anand)Cinebench 202472 / 719
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Specifications

Full technical specification of Apple M1 and AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS

General

Vendor Apple Amd
Released November 20, 2020 January 4, 2023
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set ARMv8 x86-64
Codename Apple M1 Zen 4 (Phoenix)
Integrated GPU Apple M1 GPU Radeon 780M
Rival Equivalent - - Intel Core i7 13620H
Successor - Apple M5 (10-Core) - AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#61st place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 8
P-Threads 4 16
Base Frequency (P) 3.2 GHz 3.8 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) - 5.1 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 - 38x
L1 Cache 192K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 12MB (shared) 1MB (per core)
L3 Cache - 16MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Transistors 16 billions 25 billions
Fabrication Process 5 nm 4 nm
TDP (PL1) 14 W 35-54 W (configurable)
Socket Apple M-Socket FP8
Peak Temperature - 100Β°C
Laptop processors ranking (172nd and 91st place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Apple M1 GPU Radeon 780M
GPU Base Clock 450 MHz 800 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1278 MHz 2700 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 7840HS +58%
4.1 TFLOPS
More info: Radeon 780M compared to Apple M1 GPU (8-core)

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR4X-4266 - DDR5-5600
- LPDDR5x-7500
Max. Memory Size 16 GB 256 GB
Memory Channels 8 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 68.25 GB/s -
ECC Support No Yes

Misc

Official Site - AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS official page
PCI Express Version 4.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes - 20
Further details
Notes on Ryzen 7 7840HS:
    - DDR5 memory is supported only on the FP7r2 socket, while FP7 and FP8 sockets support LPDDR5/x.
    - ECC support is available exclusively on the FP7r2 socket.

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