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Apple M3 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

67 out of 100
Apple M3
VS
60 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS
Apple M3
AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

We compared two 8-core laptop CPUs: the 4.05 GHz Apple M3 against the 4.0 GHz AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS. 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 7940HS and M3
Advantages of Apple M3
  • Newer - released 10 months later
  • More modern manufacturing process – 3 versus 4 nanometers
  • 22% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 3009 vs 2469 points
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS
  • Supports up to 256 GB DDR5-5600 RAM
  • More powerful Radeon 780M integrated graphics: 4.3 vs 3.5 TFLOPS

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Apple M3
vs
Ryzen 9 7940HS

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Apple M3 +35%
140
Ryzen 9 7940HS
104
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Apple M3
712
Ryzen 9 7940HS +31%
933
Cinebench 2026 (Multi) 2341 -
Cinebench Scores (#174th 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 M3 +22%
3009
Ryzen 9 7940HS
2469
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple M3 +2%
11815
Ryzen 9 7940HS
11631
File compression 1260 MB/sec 962.5 MB/sec
Clang compilation 94.7 Klines/sec 101.4 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 264.5 pages/sec 211.8 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 313.9 Mpixels/sec 326.9 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 297 pages/sec 260.3 pages/sec
Background blur 50.2 images/sec 53.8 images/sec
Photo processing 114.8 images/sec 87.4 images/sec
Ray tracing 12.9 Mpixels/sec 22.5 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 438 & 569 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Apple M3 +22%
4707
Ryzen 9 7940HS
3850
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Apple M3
19065
Ryzen 9 7940HS +56%
29783
Integer math 42.6 GOps/sec 102.1 GOps/sec
Floating point math 48.3 GOps/sec 62.3 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 231M Primes/sec 90M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 27.3M Strings/sec 42.5M Strings/sec
Data encryption 11.5 GBytes/sec 21.5 GBytes/sec
Data compression 225 MBytes/sec 360.4 MBytes/sec
Physics 1867 Frames/sec 1427 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 10B Matrices/sec 27.2B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 1563 & 2780 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
Apple M3
160.35
Ryzen 9 7940HS +41%
225.69

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 35.6 PPW 17.3 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 590.8 PPW 215.4 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 953.3 PPW 551.5 PPW
Blender / Watt 8.02 PPW 4.18 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 M3
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-08-22 (doannguyenmfs)Geekbench 6 CPU2991 / 11735
πŸ“˜ 2026-06-16 (darkknightSup)Geekbench 6 CPU2990 / 11498
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AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2025-11-09 (chrisg)Cinebench 2024105 / 873
πŸ“˜ 2025-08-19 (Phillywilly2000)Cinebench 2024102 / 906
πŸ“˜ 2025-07-14 (GlancingOcean)Cinebench 202470 / 677
πŸ“˜ 2025-05-13 (antoooooo)Cinebench 2024109 / 1009
πŸ“˜ 2025-03-08 (沧桷)Geekbench 6 CPU2614 / 12911
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Specifications

Full technical specification of Apple M3 and AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

General

Vendor Apple Amd
Released October 30, 2023 January 4, 2023
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set ARMv8 x86-64
Codename Apple M3 Zen 4 (Phoenix)
Integrated GPU Apple M3 GPU Radeon 780M
Rival Equivalent - - Intel Core i9 13900H
Successor - Apple M5 (10-Core) - AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#66th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 8
P-Threads 4 16
Base Frequency (P) 4.05 GHz 4.0 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) - 5.2 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 4 -
E-Threads 4 -
Base Frequency (E) 2.75 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 8 8
Total Threads 8 16
Bus Frequency - 100 MHz
Multiplier 40x 40x
L1 Cache 192K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 16MB (shared) 1MB (per core)
L3 Cache - 16MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Transistors 25 billions 25 billions
Fabrication Process 3 nm 4 nm
TDP (PL1) 20 W 35-54 W (configurable)
Socket Apple M-Socket FP8
Peak Temperature 100Β°C 100Β°C
Laptop processors ranking (68th and 106th place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Apple M3 GPU Radeon 780M
GPU Base Clock 500 MHz 800 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1380 MHz 2800 MHz
Shading Units 1280 768
TMUs 80 48
ROPs 40 32
Execution Units 160 12
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
Apple M3
3.5 TFLOPS
Ryzen 9 7940HS +23%
4.3 TFLOPS
More info: Radeon 780M compared to Apple M3 GPU (10-core)

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR5-6400 - DDR5-5600
- LPDDR5x-7500
Max. Memory Size 24 GB 256 GB
Memory Channels 8 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 102.4 GB/s -
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site - AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS official page
PCI Express Version 4.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes - 20
Further details
Notes on Ryzen 9 7940HS:
    - 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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