Key Differences
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 7 260
Advantages of Apple M4 Pro (12-Core)
Specifications
Performance
| L3 Cache | 16MB (shared) | - |
| Integrated GPU | Radeon 780M | Apple M4 Pro GPU (16-core) |
| TGP | 15 W | 26 W |
Display
| Type | Laptop | Laptop |
Other
| File compression | 1040 MB/sec | 2120 MB/sec |
| Clang compilation | 104 Klines/sec | 165.8 Klines/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 248.3 pages/sec | 484.7 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 368.5 Mpixels/sec | 486.8 Mpixels/sec |
| Text processing | 263.9 pages/sec | 368.5 pages/sec |
| Background blur | 61.8 images/sec | 84.2 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 105.2 images/sec | 189.3 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 23.2 Mpixels/sec | 25.9 Mpixels/sec |
| Integer math | 98.9 GOps/sec | 71.3 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | 60.1 GOps/sec | 71.9 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | 79M Primes/sec | 463M Primes/sec |
| Random string sorting | 43.1M Strings/sec | 46.6M Strings/sec |
| Data encryption | 20.7 GBytes/sec | 19.6 GBytes/sec |
| Data compression | 354.9 MBytes/sec | 412.6 MBytes/sec |
| Physics | 1270 Frames/sec | 4817 Frames/sec |
| Extended instructions | 26.5B Matrices/sec | 22B Matrices/sec |
| Cinebench 2024 / Watt | 16.5 PPW | 38.9 PPW |
| Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt | 236.4 PPW | 539.4 PPW |
| Passmark CPU Mark / Watt | 529.2 PPW | 865.4 PPW |
| Blender / Watt | 3.82 PPW | - |
| Vendor | Amd | Apple |
| Released | January 7, 2025 | October 29, 2024 |
| Instruction Set | x86-64 | ARMv9 |
| Codename | Zen 4 (Hawk Point) | Apple M4 |
| Rival Equivalent | - | - |
| P-Cores | 8 | 8 |
| P-Threads | 16 | 8 |
| Base Frequency (P) | 3.8 GHz | 4.51 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency (P) | 5.1 GHz | - |
| E-Cores | - | 4 |
| E-Threads | - | 4 |
| Base Frequency (E) | - | 2.59 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency (E) | - | - |
| Total Cores | 8 | 12 |
| Total Threads | 16 | 12 |
| Bus Frequency | 100 MHz | - |
| Multiplier | 38x | 45x |
| L1 Cache | 64K (per core) | 192K (per core) |
| L2 Cache | 1MB (per core) | 16MB (shared) |
| Unlocked Multiplier | No | No |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 3 nm |
| TDP (PL1) | 35-54 W (configurable) | 38 W |
| Max. Boost TDP (PL2) | - | - |
| Socket | FP8 | Apple M-Socket |
| Peak Temperature | 100°C | 100°C |
| Integrated Graphics | Radeon 780M | Apple M4 Pro GPU (16-core) |
| GPU Base Clock | 800 MHz | 500 MHz |
| GPU Boost Clock | 2700 MHz | 1800 MHz |
| Shading Units | 768 | 2048 |
| TMUs | 48 | 128 |
| ROPs | 32 | 64 |
| Execution Units | 12 | 256 |
| Memory Types | - LPDDR5X-7500 - DDR5-5600 | - LPDDR5X-8533 |
| Max. Memory Size | 256 GB | 64 GB |
| Memory Channels | 2 | 4 |
| ECC Support | No | No |
| Official Site | AMD Ryzen 7 260 official page | - |
| PCI Express Version | 4.0 | - |
| PCI Express Lanes | 20 | - |
| Transistors | - | - |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | - | 273 GB/s |