AMD Ryzen 5 7235HS vs Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) (97/100)

Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) leads overall with a score of 97/100 compared to AMD Ryzen 5 7235HS (41/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose Apple M5 Pro (18-Core):
  • + Higher Efficiency score (98 vs 67)
  • + Higher Performance score (100 vs 51)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark AMD Ryzen 5 7235HS Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
Efficiency 67.0 Average 98.0 Excellent WINNER
Performance 51.0 Below Average 100.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 5 7235HS Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
Base Frequency (P) 3.2 GHz 4.61 GHz
Bus Frequency 100 MHz —
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 192K (per core)
L2 Cache 512K (per core) —
L3 Cache 8MB (shared) —
Multiplier 32x 46x
P-Cores 4 6
P-Threads 8 6
Total Cores 4 18
Total Threads 8 18
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 4.2 GHz —
Unlocked Multiplier No No
Base Frequency (E) — 4.38 GHz
E-Cores — 12
E-Threads — 12

GeekBench v6

GeekBench v6 specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 5 7235HS Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
Background blur 34.2 images/sec 100.3 images/sec
Clang compilation 36.5 Klines/sec 262.5 Klines/sec
File compression 587.8 MB/sec 2530 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 128.9 pages/sec 738.1 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 168.4 Mpixels/sec 744.9 Mpixels/sec
Photo processing 54.1 images/sec 250.8 images/sec
Ray tracing 10.1 Mpixels/sec 46.5 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 179.7 pages/sec 450.7 pages/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 5 7235HS Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
Codename Zen 3+ (Rembrandt) Apple M5
Instruction Set x86-64 ARMv9
Integrated GPU No Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core)
Released January 5, 2023 March 3, 2026
Type Laptop Laptop
Vendor Amd Apple

Memory Support

Memory Support specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 5 7235HS Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
ECC Support Yes No
Max. Memory Bandwidth 76.8 GB/s 307 GB/s
Max. Memory Size 64 GB 64 GB
Memory Channels 2 16
Memory Types - DDR5-4800- LPDDR5-6400 - LPDDR5X-9600

Misc

Misc specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 5 7235HS Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
Official Site AMD Ryzen 5 7235HS official page —
PCI Express Lanes 20 —
PCI Express Version 4.0 —
Technologies - Compute: BMI1, BMI2, F16C, SHA- Performance: Precision Boost 2, SMT- Virtualization: AMD-V- Security: EVP, NX-Bit, SMAP, SMEP —

Package

Package specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 5 7235HS Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
Fabrication Process 6 nm 3 nm
Peak Temperature 95°C 100°C
Socket FP7 Apple M-Socket
TDP (PL1) 35-54 W (configurable) —
Transistors — 28 billions

PassMark

PassMark specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 5 7235HS Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
Data compression 153 MBytes/sec 697.9 MBytes/sec
Data encryption 9.1 GBytes/sec 40.8 GBytes/sec
Extended instructions 10.9B Matrices/sec 33.3B Matrices/sec
Find prime numbers 30M Primes/sec 486M Primes/sec
Floating point math 23.2 GOps/sec 186.8 GOps/sec
Integer math 40.3 GOps/sec 132.7 GOps/sec
Physics 571 Frames/sec 5687 Frames/sec
Random string sorting 15.5M Strings/sec 85.6M Strings/sec

Performance Per Watt

Performance Per Watt specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 5 7235HS Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
Blender / Watt 1.3 PPW —
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 8.5 PPW —
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 114.7 PPW —
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 227.2 PPW —

iGPU

iGPU specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 5 7235HS Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
Execution Units — 320
GPU Boost Clock — 1620 MHz
Integrated Graphics — Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core)
ROPs — 80
Shading Units — 2560
TGP — 28 W
TMUs — 160

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