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Apple M2 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700U

57 out of 100
Apple M2
VS
40 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 7 5700U
Apple M2
AMD Ryzen 7 5700U

We compared two 8-core laptop CPUs: the 3.5 GHz Apple M2 against the 1.8 GHz AMD Ryzen 7 5700U. 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 5700U and M2
Advantages of Apple M2
  • 61% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2589 vs 1605 points
  • More powerful Apple M2 GPU integrated graphics: 2.9 vs 1.9 TFLOPS
  • More modern manufacturing process – 5 versus 7 nanometers
  • Newer - released 1 year and 5 months later
  • Newer PCI Express version – 4.0
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 7 5700U
  • Supports up to 32 GB DDR4-3200 RAM

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Apple M2
vs
Ryzen 7 5700U

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Apple M2 +71%
125
Ryzen 7 5700U
73
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Apple M2 +20%
582
Ryzen 7 5700U
486
Cinebench 2026 (Single) - 393
Cinebench 2026 (Multi) - 1943
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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 M2 +61%
2589
Ryzen 7 5700U
1605
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple M2 +54%
10122
Ryzen 7 5700U
6562
File compression 1130 MB/sec 504.6 MB/sec
Clang compilation 80.4 Klines/sec 43.4 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 235.3 pages/sec 138 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 266.1 Mpixels/sec 208.6 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 257.4 pages/sec 132.7 pages/sec
Background blur 42.1 images/sec 32.1 images/sec
Photo processing 107 images/sec 55.9 images/sec
Ray tracing 10.5 Mpixels/sec 13.2 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 465 & 1164 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Apple M2 +53%
3883
Ryzen 7 5700U
2531
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Apple M2 +2%
15651
Ryzen 7 5700U
15369
Integer math 37 GOps/sec 58.9 GOps/sec
Floating point math 37.5 GOps/sec 32.6 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 174M Primes/sec 29M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 23.7M Strings/sec 23.3M Strings/sec
Data encryption 9.5 GBytes/sec 12.3 GBytes/sec
Data compression 185.8 MBytes/sec 215.9 MBytes/sec
Physics 1667 Frames/sec 612 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 7.8B Matrices/sec 13.4B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 4611 & 5261 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
Apple M2
109.19
Ryzen 7 5700U +11%
120.67

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 32.3 PPW 19.4 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 562.3 PPW 262.5 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 869.5 PPW 614.8 PPW
Blender / Watt 6.07 PPW 4.83 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 M2
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-03-14 (T)Geekbench 6 CPU2647 / 10245
πŸ“˜ 2026-01-05 (AR)Geekbench 6 CPU2655 / 10211
πŸ“˜ 2025-10-24 (Shivam)Geekbench 6 CPU2619 / 9900
Add View all (3)
AMD Ryzen 7 5700U
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-07-29 (Mike)Geekbench 6 CPU1519 / 5184
πŸ“˜ 2026-05-30 (Ryan A.)Cinebench 2026393 / 1943
πŸ“˜ 2024-11-30 (Hp Ireland)Cinebench 202473 / 486
Add View all (3)

Specifications

Full technical specification of Apple M2 and AMD Ryzen 7 5700U

General

Vendor Apple Amd
Released June 6, 2022 January 12, 2021
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set ARMv8 x86-64
Codename Apple M2 Zen 2 (Lucienne)
Integrated GPU Apple M2 GPU Radeon RX Vega 8
Rival Equivalent - - Intel Core i7 1165G7
Successor - Apple M5 (10-Core) -
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#158th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 8
P-Threads 4 16
Base Frequency (P) 3.5 GHz 1.8 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) - 4.3 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 4 -
E-Threads 4 -
Base Frequency (E) 2.4 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 8 8
Total Threads 8 16
Bus Frequency - 100 MHz
Multiplier - 18x
L1 Cache 192K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 16MB (shared) 512K (per core)
L3 Cache - 8MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Transistors 20 billions -
Fabrication Process 5 nm 7 nm
TDP (PL1) 18 W 10-25 W (configurable)
Socket Apple M-Socket FP6
Peak Temperature - 105Β°C

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Apple M2 GPU Radeon RX Vega 8
GPU Base Clock 500 MHz 300 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1398 MHz 1900 MHz
Shading Units 1024 512
TMUs 64 32
ROPs 32 8
Execution Units 128 8
TGP 15 W 25 W
iGPU FLOPS
Apple M2 +53%
2.9 TFLOPS
Ryzen 7 5700U
1.9 TFLOPS
More info: Radeon RX Vega 8 compared to Apple M2 GPU (8-core)

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR5-6400 - DDR4-3200
- LPDDR4-4266
Max. Memory Size 24 GB 32 GB
Memory Channels 8 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 102.4 GB/s -
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site - AMD Ryzen 7 5700U official page
PCI Express Version 4.0 3.0
PCI Express Lanes - 12

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