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Apple M2 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX

57 out of 100
Apple M2
VS
74 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
Apple M2
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 3.5 GHz Apple M2 with 8-cores against the 2.5 GHz AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX with 16-cores. 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 7945HX and M2
Advantages of Apple M2
  • More powerful Apple M2 GPU integrated graphics: 2.9 vs 0.6 TFLOPS
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
  • Supports up to 64 GB DDR5-5200 RAM
  • Has 8 more physical cores
  • Unlocked multiplier
  • Newer PCI Express version – 5.0
  • Newer - released 7 months later
  • 12% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2901 vs 2589 points

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Apple M2
vs
Ryzen 9 7945HX

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Apple M2 +10%
125
Ryzen 9 7945HX
114
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Apple M2
582
Ryzen 9 7945HX +215%
1834
Cinebench Scores (#41st 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 M2
2589
Ryzen 9 7945HX +12%
2901
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple M2
10122
Ryzen 9 7945HX +76%
17828
File compression 1130 MB/sec 1590 MB/sec
Clang compilation 80.4 Klines/sec 190.6 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 235.3 pages/sec 320.2 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 266.1 Mpixels/sec 474.8 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 257.4 pages/sec 296.8 pages/sec
Background blur 42.1 images/sec 66.1 images/sec
Photo processing 107 images/sec 114.8 images/sec
Ray tracing 10.5 Mpixels/sec 43 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 465 & 677 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Apple M2
3883
Ryzen 9 7945HX +3%
4017
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Apple M2
15651
Ryzen 9 7945HX +244%
53917
Integer math 37 GOps/sec 205.1 GOps/sec
Floating point math 37.5 GOps/sec 122.1 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 174M Primes/sec 280M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 23.7M Strings/sec 81.4M Strings/sec
Data encryption 9.5 GBytes/sec 42.2 GBytes/sec
Data compression 185.8 MBytes/sec 699.1 MBytes/sec
Physics 1667 Frames/sec 2450 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 7.8B Matrices/sec 51.2B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 4611 & 2890 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
Apple M2
109.19
Ryzen 9 7945HX +333%
472.26

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 32.3 PPW 24.5 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 562.3 PPW 237.7 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 869.5 PPW 718.9 PPW
Blender / Watt 6.07 PPW 6.3 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 9 7945HX
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2025-11-02 (Qwerrty574)Geekbench 6 CPU2949 / 17981
πŸ“˜ 2025-11-02 (Qwerrty574)Cinebench 2024116 / 1901
πŸ“˜ 2025-04-02 (ceratogyrus35)Cinebench 2024114 / 1834
πŸ“˜ 2025-02-18 (Baka)Cinebench 2024112 / 1552
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Specifications

Full technical specification of Apple M2 and AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX

General

Vendor Apple Amd
Released June 6, 2022 January 4, 2023
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set ARMv8 x86-64
Codename Apple M2 Zen 4 (Dragon Range)
Integrated GPU Apple M2 GPU Radeon 610M
Rival Equivalent - - Intel Core i9 13950HX
Successor - Apple M5 (10-Core) -
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#24th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 16
P-Threads 4 32
Base Frequency (P) 3.5 GHz 2.5 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) - 5.4 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 4 -
E-Threads 4 -
Base Frequency (E) 2.4 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 8 16
Total Threads 8 32
Bus Frequency - 100 MHz
Multiplier - 25x
L1 Cache 192K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 16MB (shared) 1MB (per core)
L3 Cache - 64MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No Yes

Package

Transistors 20 billions 13.1 billions
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
TDP (PL1) 18 W 55-75 W (configurable)
Socket Apple M-Socket FL1
Peak Temperature - 100Β°C
Laptop processors ranking (133rd and 36th place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Apple M2 GPU Radeon 610M
GPU Base Clock 500 MHz 400 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1398 MHz 2200 MHz
Shading Units 1024 128
TMUs 64 8
ROPs 32 4
Execution Units 128 2
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
Apple M2 +383%
2.9 TFLOPS
Ryzen 9 7945HX
0.6 TFLOPS
More info: Radeon 610M compared to Apple M2 GPU (8-core)

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR5-6400 - DDR5-5200
Max. Memory Size 24 GB 64 GB
Memory Channels 8 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 102.4 GB/s -
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site - AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX official page
PCI Express Version 4.0 5.0
PCI Express Lanes - 28

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Comments

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