Apple M3 Max vs AMD Athlon Silver 10

CPU · Specs Compare

CPU Apple M3 Max Apple · 2023-10

CPU AMD Athlon Silver 10 AMD · 2025-10

General Parameters

Release Date

Oct 2023

Oct 2025

Manufacturer

Apple

AMD

Type

Laptop

Laptop

Instruction Set

ARMv8

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Core Architecture

Apple M3

Mendocino

Integrated Graphics

Apple M3 Max GPU (38-core)

Radeon 610M

Generation

—

Athlon (Zen 2 (Mendocino))

Package

Transistor Count

92 billions

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Manufacturing Process

3 nm

6 nm

Socket

Apple M-Socket

AMD Socket FT6

Power Consumption

56 W

15 W

Peak Operating Temperature

100 °C

95°C

Foundry

—

TSMC

Die Size

—

100 mm²

Package

—

FT6

CPU Performance

Performance Cores

12

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Performance Core Threads

12

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Performance Core Base Frequency

4.05 GHz

2.4 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

4.05 GHz

3.5 GHz

Efficiency Cores

4

—

Efficiency Core Threads

4

—

Efficiency Core Base Frequency

2.75 GHz

—

Efficiency Core Turbo Frequency

2.57 GHz

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Total Core Count

16

2

Total Thread Count

16

2

Multiplier

40

24.0

L1 Cache

192 K per core

64 KB per core

L2 Cache

32 MB shared

512 KB per core

Unlocked Multiplier

No

No

Bus Frequency

—

100 MHz

L3 Cache

—

2 MB shared

SMP

—

1

Memory Parameters

Memory Types

LPDDR5-6400

LPDDR5-5500

Max Memory Size

128 GB

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Max Memory Channels

8

2

Max Memory Bandwidth

409.6 GB/s

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ECC Memory Support

No

No

Graphics Card Parameters

Integrated Graphics

true

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GPU Base Frequency

500 MHz

—

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

1600 MHz

—

Shader Units

5120

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Texture Units

320

—

Raster Operation Units

160

—

Execution Units

640

—

Power Consumption

60

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Miscellaneous

PCIe Version

4.0

3

PCIe Lanes

—

4

Benchmark

Cinebench R23

1,950

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Cinebench R23

24,002

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Geekbench 6

3,227

785

Geekbench 6

21,164

1,377

Cinebench 2024

142

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Cinebench 2024

1,683

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Blender

415

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Passmark CPU

4,790

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Passmark CPU

41,188

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