Apple M1 vs. Ryzen 5000: MacBook Pro and Asus ROG Flow X13, compared
We’ve already tested AMD’s Ryzen 5000 mobile against Intel’s current Core i7 chips in laptops, and Ryzen easily wins. But what everyone really wants to know is how it stacks up against Apple’s impressive M1 silicon chip in the new MacBook Pro.
The M1 is a 5nm, TSMC-built chip based on the Arm architecture—a hard pivot by Apple after ending its 15-year relationship with Intel. Despite the performance hit of dealing with translating x86 instructions to Arm, when we tested the MacBook Pro M1 against Intel 10th-gen and 11th-gen CPUs and AMD’s Ryzen 4000, we were genuinely impressed.
Cribbing from all those performance results, we decided to compare benchmarks run by our sibling site, Macworld, as well as results from respected workstation builder Puget Systems, to see just where the CPUs and laptops land up in that comparison.
For our previous comparisons we featured these laptops:
• MSI’s Prestige 14 Evo: 4-core, 11th-gen Core i7-1185G7 with Iris Xe graphics, 16GB of LPDDR4X/4267 memory, 512GB PCIe Gen 4 SSD, 14-inch FHD screen. It weighs 2.7 pounds.
• : 6-core, 10th-gen Core i7-10710U, GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q graphics, 16GB of LPDDR3/2133 memory, 1TB PCIe 3.0 SSD, 14-inch 4K screen. It weighs 2.8 pounds.
