AMD Ryzen 5 3501U vs Apple M4 Pro 12 Core

CPU · Specs Compare

CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3501U AMD · 2026-06

CPU Apple M4 Pro 12 Core Apple · 2024-10

General Parameters

Release Date

Jun 2026

Oct 2024

Manufacturer

AMD

Apple

Type

Laptop

Laptop

Core Architecture

Picasso

Apple M4

Integrated Graphics

Radeon Vega 8

Apple M4 Pro GPU (16-core)

Generation

Ryzen 5 (Zen+ (Picasso))

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Instruction Set

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ARMv9

Package

Transistor Count

4.94 billions

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Manufacturing Process

12 nm

3 nm

Socket

AMD Socket FP5

Apple M-Socket

Power Consumption

15 W

38 W

Peak Operating Temperature

105°C

100 °C

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

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Die Size

210 mm²

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Package

FP5

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CPU Performance

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.1 GHz

4.52 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3.7 GHz

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Total Core Count

4

12

Total Thread Count

4

12

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

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Multiplier

21.0

45

L1 Cache

96 KB per core

192 K per core

L2 Cache

512 KB per core

16 MB shared

L3 Cache

4 MB shared

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Unlocked Multiplier

No

No

SMP

1

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Performance Cores

—

8

Performance Core Threads

—

8

Efficiency Cores

—

4

Efficiency Core Threads

—

4

Efficiency Core Base Frequency

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2.59 GHz

Memory Parameters

Memory Types

DDR4-2400

LPDDR5X-8533

Max Memory Channels

2

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Max Memory Bandwidth

38.4 GB/s

273 GB/s

ECC Memory Support

No

No

Miscellaneous

PCIe Version

3

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Graphics Card Parameters

Integrated Graphics

—

true

GPU Base Frequency

—

500 MHz

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

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1800 MHz

Shader Units

—

2048

Texture Units

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128

Raster Operation Units

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64

Execution Units

—

256

Power Consumption

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26

Benchmark

Geekbench 6

1,081

3,863

Geekbench 6

2,981

20,492

Cinebench R23

—

2,171

Cinebench R23

—

18,574

Cinebench 2024

—

170

Cinebench 2024

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1,418

▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.