AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 9745 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 Pro 9745 (73/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose Apple M5 Pro (18-Core):
  • + Higher Efficiency score (98 vs 77)
  • + Higher Performance score (100 vs 88)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 9745 Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
Efficiency 77.0 Good 98.0 Excellent WINNER
Performance 88.0 Very Good 100.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 9745 Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
Base Frequency (P) 3.8 GHz 4.61 GHz
Bus Frequency 100 MHz —
L1 Cache 80K (per core) 192K (per core)
L2 Cache 1MB (per core) —
L3 Cache 32MB (shared) —
Multiplier 38x 46x
P-Cores 8 6
P-Threads 16 6
Total Cores 8 18
Total Threads 16 18
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 5.4 GHz —
Unlocked Multiplier Yes No
Base Frequency (E) — 4.38 GHz
E-Cores — 12
E-Threads — 12

GeekBench v6

GeekBench v6 specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 9745 Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
Background blur 77.5 images/sec 100.3 images/sec
Clang compilation 127.3 Klines/sec 262.5 Klines/sec
File compression 1210 MB/sec 2530 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 247.7 pages/sec 738.1 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 434.6 Mpixels/sec 744.9 Mpixels/sec
Photo processing 97.6 images/sec 250.8 images/sec
Ray tracing 27.7 Mpixels/sec 46.5 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 353 pages/sec 450.7 pages/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 9745 Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
Codename Zen 5 (Granite Ridge) Apple M5
Instruction Set x86-64 ARMv9
Integrated GPU Radeon Graphics Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core)
Model number 9745 —
Released January 5, 2026 March 3, 2026
Type Desktop Laptop
Vendor Amd Apple

Memory Support

Memory Support specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 9745 Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
ECC Support Yes No
Max. Memory Bandwidth 89.6 GB/s 307 GB/s
Max. Memory Size 192 GB 64 GB
Memory Channels 2 16
Memory Types - DDR5-5600 - LPDDR5X-9600

Misc

Misc specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 9745 Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
Official Site AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 9745 official page —
PCI Express Lanes 28 —
PCI Express Version 5.0 —

Package

Package specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 9745 Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
Fabrication Process 4 nm 3 nm
Peak Temperature 95°C 100°C
Socket AM5 Apple M-Socket
TDP (PL1) 65 W —
Transistors — 28 billions

PassMark

PassMark specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 9745 Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
Data compression 457.2 MBytes/sec 697.9 MBytes/sec
Data encryption 22.8 GBytes/sec 40.8 GBytes/sec
Extended instructions 36.8B Matrices/sec 33.3B Matrices/sec
Find prime numbers 188M Primes/sec 486M Primes/sec
Floating point math 82.5 GOps/sec 186.8 GOps/sec
Integer math 124.2 GOps/sec 132.7 GOps/sec
Physics 2026 Frames/sec 5687 Frames/sec
Random string sorting 49.2M Strings/sec 85.6M Strings/sec

Performance Per Watt

Performance Per Watt specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 9745 Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 18.1 PPW —
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 228.3 PPW —
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 587.7 PPW —

iGPU

iGPU specifications comparison
Specification AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 9745 Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
Execution Units 2 320
GPU Base Clock 400 MHz —
GPU Boost Clock 2200 MHz 1620 MHz
Integrated Graphics Radeon Graphics Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core)
ROPs 4 80
Shading Units 128 2560
TGP 15 W 28 W
TMUs 8 160

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