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Apple M2 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7435HS

57 out of 100
Apple M2
VS
50 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 7 7435HS
Apple M2
AMD Ryzen 7 7435HS

We compared two 8-core laptop CPUs: the 3.5 GHz Apple M2 against the 3.1 GHz AMD Ryzen 7 7435HS. 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
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 7435HS and M2
Advantages of Apple M2
  • Around 25.6 GB/s (33%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
  • 29% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2589 vs 2010 points
  • More modern manufacturing process – 5 versus 6 nanometers
  • Includes an integrated GPU Apple M2 GPU
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 7 7435HS
  • Supports up to 64 GB DDR5-4800 RAM
  • Newer - released 1 year and 10 months later

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Apple M2
vs
Ryzen 7 7435HS

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Apple M2 +49%
125
Ryzen 7 7435HS
84
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Apple M2
582
Ryzen 7 7435HS +24%
723
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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 +29%
2589
Ryzen 7 7435HS
2010
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple M2 +4%
10122
Ryzen 7 7435HS
9779
File compression 1130 MB/sec 881.7 MB/sec
Clang compilation 80.4 Klines/sec 77.5 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 235.3 pages/sec 193.5 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 266.1 Mpixels/sec 308.7 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 257.4 pages/sec 208.8 pages/sec
Background blur 42.1 images/sec 46.2 images/sec
Photo processing 107 images/sec 77.4 images/sec
Ray tracing 10.5 Mpixels/sec 18.3 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 465 & 29 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Apple M2 +26%
3883
Ryzen 7 7435HS
3082
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Apple M2
15651
Ryzen 7 7435HS +45%
22631
Integer math 37 GOps/sec 83.2 GOps/sec
Floating point math 37.5 GOps/sec 47.6 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 174M Primes/sec 53M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 23.7M Strings/sec 30.8M Strings/sec
Data encryption 9.5 GBytes/sec 18 GBytes/sec
Data compression 185.8 MBytes/sec 299 MBytes/sec
Physics 1667 Frames/sec 957 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 7.8B Matrices/sec 21B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 4611 & 2027 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
Apple M2
109.19
Ryzen 7 7435HS +58%
172.04

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 32.3 PPW 13.4 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 562.3 PPW 181.1 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 869.5 PPW 419.1 PPW
Blender / Watt 6.07 PPW 3.19 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
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AMD Ryzen 7 7435HS
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-08-12 (joel)Cinebench 202446 / 455
πŸ“˜ 2026-02-21 (Π‘Π΅Π½Π΅Π΄ΠΈΠΊΡ‚)Geekbench 6 CPU1315 / 6239
πŸ“˜ 2025-10-24 (Inverse Sauce)Cinebench 202484 / 723
πŸ“˜ 2025-10-11 (MrAVM)Geekbench 6 CPU1985 / 10492
πŸ“˜ 2025-10-11 (MrAVM)Cinebench 202484 / 752
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Specifications

Full technical specification of Apple M2 and AMD Ryzen 7 7435HS

General

Vendor Apple Amd
Released June 6, 2022 April 1, 2024
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set ARMv8 x86-64
Codename Apple M2 Zen 3+ (Rembrandt)
Integrated GPU Apple M2 GPU No
Successor - Apple M5 (10-Core) -
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#112th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 8
P-Threads 4 16
Base Frequency (P) 3.5 GHz 3.1 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) - 4.5 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 - 31x
L1 Cache 192K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 16MB (shared) 512K (per core)
L3 Cache - 16MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Transistors 20 billions -
Fabrication Process 5 nm 6 nm
TDP (PL1) 18 W 35-54 W (configurable)
Socket Apple M-Socket FP7
Peak Temperature - 95Β°C
Laptop processors ranking (133rd and 195th place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Apple M2 GPU -
GPU Base Clock 500 MHz -
GPU Boost Clock 1398 MHz -
Shading Units 1024 -
TMUs 64 -
ROPs 32 -
Execution Units 128 -
TGP 15 W -
iGPU FLOPS
Apple M2
2.9 TFLOPS
Ryzen 7 7435HS
n/a
See: Apple M2 GPU (8-core) benchmarks

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR5-6400 - DDR5-4800
Max. Memory Size 24 GB 64 GB
Memory Channels 8 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 102.4 GB/s 76.8 GB/s
ECC Support No Yes

Misc

Official Site - AMD Ryzen 7 7435HS official page
PCI Express Version 4.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes - 20

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Total votes: 21

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Comments

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