AMD Ryzen 7 7736U vs Apple M3 Max 14-Core
AMD Ryzen 7 7736U
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The AMD Ryzen 7 7736U is a processor for mid-sized laptops based of the Rembrandt refresh generation. The R7 7736U integrates all eight cores based on the Zen 3+ microarchitecture. They are clocked at 2.7 (guaranteed base clock) to 4.75 GHz (Turbo) and support SMT / Hyperthreading (16 threads). The chip is manufactured on the modern 6 nm TSMC process. Compared to the previous Ryzen 7 6800U, the 7736U offers the same specs and a slightly higher possible TDP of 15-28W (vs 15-25W). The 7736U is a special version for HP of the Ryzen 7 7735U / Ryzen 7 6800U.
The Zen 3+ is a refresh of the Zen 3 architecture and should not offer a lot of changes. The chip offers modern features, like support for USB 4 (40 Gbps), PCI-E Gen 4 and DDR5-4800MT/s or LPDDR5-6400MT/s.
The performance should be similar to the old Ryzen 7 6800U due to the same specifications. The Ryzen 7 R7 7735U should be in theory a bit higher due to the 50 MHz higher boost clock.
The integrated GPU Radeon 680M is still one of the fastest iGPUs (only bested by the new Radeon 780M). It is based on the RDNA2 architecture and offers 12 CUs at up to 2.2 GHz.
The Ryzen 7736U is manufactured in 6nm FinFET at TSMC.
Apple M3 Max 14-Core
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The Apple M3 Max 14 core CPU is a system on a chip (SoC) from Apple for notebooks that was introduced towards the end of 2023. It integrates a new 14-core CPU with 10 performance cores with up to 4.06 GHz and 4 efficiency cores with 2.8 GHz. There is also a more powerful 16-core variant with 40 GPU cores.
Thanks to the higher clock rates and architectural improvements, the processor performance is also significantly better than the M2 Max in benchmarks and can keep up with the fastest mobile CPUs.
The M3 also integrates a new graphics card with dynamic caching, mesh shading and ray tracing acceleration via hardware. In the cheaper model, 30 of the chip's 40 cores are used and support up to 5 displays simultaneously (internal and 4 external).
GPU and CPU can jointly access the shared memory on the package (unified memory). This is available in 36 and 96 GB variants and offers 400 GB/s maximum bandwidth (512 bit bus).
The integrated 16-core Neural Engine has also been revised and now offers 18 TOPS peak performance (compared to 15.8 TOPS in the M2 but 35 TOPS in the new A17 Pro). The video engine now also supports AV1 decoding in hardware. H.264, HEVC and ProRes (RAW) can still be decoded and encoded. Like its predecessor, the Max chip offers two video engines and can therefore encode and decode two streams simultaneously.
Unfortunately, the integrated WLAN only continues to support WiFi 6E (no WiFi 7), unlike the small M3 SoC thunderbolt 4 is also supported (max 40 Gbit/s).
The chip is manufactured in the current 3nm process (N3B) at TSMC and contains 92 billion transistors (+37% vs. Apple M2 Max).
Model | AMD Ryzen 7 7736U | Apple M3 Max 14-Core | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Series | AMD Rembrandt (Zen 3+) | Apple Apple M3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Codename | Rembrandt R | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Series: Apple M3 |
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Clock | 2700 - 4700 MHz | 2748 - 4056 MHz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
L1 Cache | 512 KB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
L2 Cache | 4 MB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
L3 Cache | 16 MB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cores / Threads | 8 / 16 | 14 / 14 10 x 4.1 GHz Apple M3 P-Core 4 x 2.7 GHz Apple M3 E-Core | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TDP | 28 Watt | 78 Watt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Technology | 6 nm | 3 nm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
max. Temp. | 95 °C | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Socket | FP7 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Features | XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT | ARMv8 Instruction Set | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
iGPU | AMD Radeon 680M ( - 2200 MHz) | Apple M3 Max 30-Core GPU | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Architecture | x86 | ARM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Manufacturer | www.amd.com | www.apple.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Transistors | 92000 Million |