Apple M1 Pro vs AMD Athlon Gold 20

CPU · Specs Compare

CPU Apple M1 Pro Apple · 2021-10

CPU AMD Athlon Gold 20 AMD · 2025-10

General Parameters

Release Date

Oct 2021

Oct 2025

Manufacturer

Apple

AMD

Type

Laptop

Laptop

Instruction Set

ARMv8

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Integrated Graphics

Apple M1 Pro GPU (16-core)

Radeon 610M

Core Architecture

—

Mendocino

Generation

—

Athlon (Zen 2 (Mendocino))

Package

Transistor Count

33.7 billions

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Manufacturing Process

5 nm

6 nm

Socket

Apple M-Socket

AMD Socket FT6

Power Consumption

30 W

15 W

Peak Operating Temperature

—

95°C

Foundry

—

TSMC

Die Size

—

100 mm²

Package

—

FT6

CPU Performance

Performance Cores

10

—

Performance Core Threads

10

—

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.0 GHz

2.4 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3.2 GHz

3.7 GHz

Total Core Count

10

2

Total Thread Count

10

4

L1 Cache

192 K per core

64 KB per core

L2 Cache

24 MB shared

512 KB per core

Unlocked Multiplier

No

No

Bus Frequency

—

100 MHz

Multiplier

—

24.0

L3 Cache

—

4 MB shared

SMP

—

1

Memory Parameters

Memory Types

LPDDR5-6400

LPDDR5-5500

Max Memory Size

32 GB

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Max Memory Channels

4

2

Max Memory Bandwidth

204.8 GB/s

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ECC Memory Support

No

No

Graphics Card Parameters

Integrated Graphics

true

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GPU Base Frequency

450 MHz

—

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

1296 MHz

—

Shader Units

2048

—

Texture Units

128

—

Raster Operation Units

64

—

Power Consumption

30 W

—

Max Resolution

6016x3384 - 60 Hz

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Miscellaneous

PCIe Version

—

3

PCIe Lanes

—

4

Benchmark

Cinebench R23

1,530

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Cinebench R23

12,116

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Geekbench 6

2,180

888

Geekbench 6

7,976

1,822

Blender

211

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Passmark CPU

3,792

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Passmark CPU

21,750

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