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Apple M1 Ultra

vs

AMD Ryzen 7 5700U

CPU Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of Apple M1 Ultra and AMD Ryzen 7 5700U processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

Apple M1 Ultra

More Total Cores: 20 (20 vs 8)
Larger L3 Cache: 96 MB system level cache (96 MB system level cache vs 8MB)
Higher Technology: 5 nm (5 nm vs TSMC 7nm FinFET)
Higher Memory Type: Unified LPDDR5-6400 (Unified LPDDR5-6400 vs DDR4 - Up to 3200 MT/s, LPDDR4 - Up to 4266 MT/s)
Newer Launch Date: March 2022 (March 2022 vs January 2021)

Basic

Apple

Label Name

AMD

March 2022

Launch Date

January 2021

Desktop

Platform

Laptop

Apple Firestorm + Apple Icestorm

CPU Architecture

Apple M1 Ultra

CPU Name

Apple M1 Ultra

Model Name

Code Name

Lucienne

TSMC

Foundry

Apple M1 series

Generation

OS Support

Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition, Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition, RHEL x86 64-Bit, Ubuntu x86 64-Bit *Operating System (OS) support will vary by manufacturer.

CPU Specifications

2.5 TB/s

Interconnect Bandwidth

UltraFusion

Interconnect Technology

Total Cores

Cores is a hardware term that describes the number of independent central processing units in a single computing component (die or chip).

Total Threads

Performance-cores

Efficient-cores

Basic Frequency

1.8GHz

Max Turbo Frequency

Up to 4.3GHz

2.064 GHz

Efficient-core Max Turbo Frequency

NEON

Instruction Set Extensions

3.228 GHz

Performance-core Max Turbo Frequency

ARMv8-A, NEON

Extended Instruction Set

P-cores: 192 KB instruction + 128 KB data per core; E-cores: 128 KB instruction + 64 KB data per core

L1 Cache

P-core clusters: 48 MB total; E-core clusters: 8 MB total

L2 Cache

4MB

96 MB system level cache

L3 Cache

8MB

CPU Socket

The socket is the component that provides the mechanical and electrical connections between the processor and motherboard.

FP6

5 nm

Technology

Lithography refers to the semiconductor technology used to manufacture an integrated circuit, and is reported in nanometer (nm), indicative of the size of features built on the semiconductor.

TSMC 7nm FinFET

TDP

15W

Max. Operating Temperature

Junction Temperature is the maximum temperature allowed at the processor die.

105°C

PCI Express Version

PCI Express Revision is the supported version of the PCI Express standard. Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (or PCIe) is a high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard for attaching hardware devices to a computer. The different PCI Express versions support different data rates.

PCIe® 3.0

ARMv8-A

Instruction Set

An instruction set architecture (ISA) defines the instructions a processor can execute. Common architectures include x86-64, ARM and RISC-V. The ISA determines software compatibility, while optional instruction extensions add specialized capabilities.

114 billion

Transistor Count

Memory Specifications

1024-bit

Memory Bus Width

Unified LPDDR5-6400

Memory Type

DDR4 - Up to 3200 MT/s, LPDDR4 - Up to 4266 MT/s

LPDDR5-6400

LPDDR5 Speed

128 GB

Max Memory Size

Max memory size refers to the maximum memory capacity supported by the processor.

Memory Channels

The number of memory channels refers to the bandwidth operation for real world application.

800 GB/s

Max Memory Bandwidth

Max Memory bandwidth is the maximum rate at which data can be read from or stored into a semiconductor memory by the processor (in GB/s).

6400 MT/s

Maximum Memory Speed

GPU Specifications

Apple M1 Ultra GPU

GPU Name

Up to 18 streams of 8K ProRes 422 video

Video Concurrency

H.264, HEVC, ProRes, ProRes RAW

Video Decode

H.264, HEVC, ProRes, ProRes RAW

Video Encode

Apple media engine with ProRes acceleration

Video Processing Unit

Integrated Graphics Model

An integrated GPU refers to the graphics core that is integrated into the CPU processor. Leveraging the processor's powerful computational capabilities and intelligent power efficiency management, it delivers outstanding graphics performance and a smooth application experience at a lower power consumption.

AMD Radeon™ Graphics

1296 MHz

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

450 MHz

Graphics Base Frequency

Graphics Base frequency refers to the rated/guaranteed graphics render clock frequency in MHz.

Graphics Core Count

Graphics Frequency

1900 MHz

Up to 5 displays

Number of Displays Supported

Metal, OpenCL