12-core Zen 5 CPU beats Intel’s 20-core chip and Apple’s M3 Max in PassMark — Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 slides past the Core i7-14700HX and M3 Max

AMD’s 12-core Zen 5 mobile flagship, the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, has made its debut on PassMark. The Zen 5-based processor showed competitive performance against Apple’s top-of-the-line M3 Max CPU, besting the 14-core variant and closing in on the 16-core mark in both single- and multi-threaded scores. The chip also outperformed Intel’s outgoing Raptor Lake high-performance HX-series CPUs, besting the Core i7-14700HX in the process. All comparisons are taken from the multi-core results in PassMark’s list of CPU benchmarks.

The Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 scored 37,699 points on PassMark’s multi-threaded benchmark and 4,213 points on PassMark’s single-threaded benchmark. The Zen 5 CPU’s score barely edges out Apple’s 14-core M3 Max, which is ahead by 4%. Apple’s beefier 16-core M3 Max manages to edge out the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, but only by 7%, making the Zen 5 CPU extremely competitive with both components.

The Ryzen AI 9 part also performed very well against some of Intel’s outgoing high-performance Raptor Lake parts. Despite being optimized for thin and light usage — and having fewer cores — the Zen 5 chip outperformed Intel’s 20-core Core i7-14700HX by 4%.

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CPU:	Single wire	Multiple wires
AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370	4,213	37,699
Apple M3 Max 16-core	4,779	40,629
Apple M3 Max 14-core	4,753	36,154
Intel Core i7-14700HX	3,850	36,103
Intel Core i9-14900HX	4,299	46,406
AMD Ryzen 9 7940HX	3,940	53,545
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D	4,123	57,922

The only chips the Ryzen AI 9 chip struggled to compete with were Intel’s flagship Core i9 HX-series CPUs and AMD’s high-performance Dragon Range Ryzen 9 parts, with Intel’s Core i9-14900HX outperforming the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 by a healthy 23%, and AMD’s Ryzen 9 7940HX by an even greater 42%.

AMD’s Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 is the latest mobile flagship, featuring its new Zen 5 CPU architecture. The chip comes with dual core clusters consisting of four Zen 5 cores and eight compact Zen 5c cores. Clock speeds top out at 5.1GHz boost, with a TDP of 28W (but configurable from 15W to 54W). The chip also has 36MB of cache and AMD’s top-of-the-line Radeon 890M integrated graphics with 16 CUs running on the more power-efficient RDNA 3.5 architecture.

The PassMark performance numbers support AMD’s claims that the HX 370 can compete with Apple’s M3 silicon. If PassMark’s results indicate real-world performance, AMD will finally have a chip that can match Apple’s silicon performance in a power package comparable to that of Apple’s M3-powered Macbooks.

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