AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS 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 7 8840HS (58/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
Efficiency 76.0 Good 98.0 Excellent WINNER
Performance 69.0 Average 100.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
Base Frequency (P) 3.3 GHz 4.61 GHz
Bus Frequency 100 MHz
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 192K (per core)
L2 Cache 1MB (per core)
L3 Cache 16MB (shared)
Multiplier 33x 46x
P-Cores 8 6
P-Threads 16 6
Total Cores 8 18
Total Threads 16 18
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 5.1 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 7 8840HS Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
Background blur 44.8 images/sec 100.3 images/sec
Clang compilation 87.9 Klines/sec 262.5 Klines/sec
File compression 714.9 MB/sec 2530 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 182.5 pages/sec 738.1 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 280.1 Mpixels/sec 744.9 Mpixels/sec
Photo processing 70.1 images/sec 250.8 images/sec
Ray tracing 19.2 Mpixels/sec 46.5 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 271.4 pages/sec 450.7 pages/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
Codename Zen 4 (Hawk Point) Apple M5
Instruction Set x86-64 ARMv9
Integrated GPU Radeon 780M Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core)
Released December 6, 2023 March 3, 2026
Type Laptop Laptop
Vendor Amd Apple

Memory Support

Memory Support specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
ECC Support No No
Max. Memory Size 256 GB 64 GB
Memory Channels 2 16
Memory Types - DDR5-5600- LPDDR5x-7500 - LPDDR5X-9600
Max. Memory Bandwidth 307 GB/s

Misc

Misc specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
Official Site AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS official page
PCI Express Lanes 20
PCI Express Version 4.0
Technologies - Compute: AVX-512, BMI1, BMI2, F16C, SHA, XDNA2- Performance: Precision Boost 2, SMT- Virtualization: AMD-V- Security: EVP, NX-Bit, SMAP, SMEP

Package

Package specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
Fabrication Process 4 nm 3 nm
Peak Temperature 100°C 100°C
Socket FP8 Apple M-Socket
TDP (PL1) 20-30 W (configurable)
Transistors 25 billions 28 billions

PassMark

PassMark specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
Data compression 289.2 MBytes/sec 697.9 MBytes/sec
Data encryption 17.5 GBytes/sec 40.8 GBytes/sec
Extended instructions 20.4B Matrices/sec 33.3B Matrices/sec
Find prime numbers 78M Primes/sec 486M Primes/sec
Floating point math 51.6 GOps/sec 186.8 GOps/sec
Integer math 88.4 GOps/sec 132.7 GOps/sec
Physics 1153 Frames/sec 5687 Frames/sec
Random string sorting 35.3M Strings/sec 85.6M Strings/sec

Performance Per Watt

Performance Per Watt specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
Blender / Watt 5.59 PPW
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 22.6 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 321.8 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 820.8 PPW

iGPU

iGPU specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
Execution Units 12 320
GPU Base Clock 800 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 2700 MHz 1620 MHz
Integrated Graphics Radeon 780M Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core)
ROPs 32 80
Shading Units 768 2560
TGP 15 W 28 W
TMUs 48 160

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