Apple M2 Ultra vs M2 Max
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We compared two laptop CPUs: the 3.5 GHz Apple M2 Ultra with 24-cores against the 3.5 GHz M2 Max with 12-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.
Review
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
Choose your main usage scenario to recalculate the Final Score and see which CPU suits your needs.
Key Differences
Advantages of Apple M2 Ultra
- Has 12 more physical cores
- Supports up to 192 GB LPDDR5-6400 RAM
- Around 409.6 GB/s (100%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
Test in Benchmarks
Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasksCinebench
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
| Cinebench 2026 (Multi) | 7481 | - |
Cinebench Scores (31st and 148th place)
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
| File compression | 2140 MB/sec | 1690 MB/sec |
| Clang compilation | 226.4 Klines/sec | 131.8 Klines/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 569.8 pages/sec | 368.6 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 603.6 Mpixels/sec | 382.1 Mpixels/sec |
| Text processing | 272.4 pages/sec | 272.7 pages/sec |
| Background blur | 56.5 images/sec | 54.1 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 170.7 images/sec | 149.6 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 33.8 Mpixels/sec | 17 Mpixels/sec |
PassMark
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
| Integer math | 117.4 GOps/sec | 57.7 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | 148.9 GOps/sec | 73.4 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | 712M Primes/sec | 359M Primes/sec |
| Random string sorting | 83.7M Strings/sec | 41.1M Strings/sec |
| Data encryption | 32 GBytes/sec | 15.7 GBytes/sec |
| Data compression | 682.7 MBytes/sec | 335.2 MBytes/sec |
| Physics | 7650 Frames/sec | 3849 Frames/sec |
| Extended instructions | 33.2B Matrices/sec | 14.7B Matrices/sec |
Blender
Blender CPU
Performance Per Watt
| Cinebench 2024 / Watt | 24.3 PPW | 20.4 PPW |
| Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt | 267.3 PPW | 297.8 PPW |
| Passmark CPU Mark / Watt | 636.8 PPW | 536.9 PPW |
| Blender / Watt | 6.27 PPW | 5.06 PPW |
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.
Specifications
Full technical specification of Apple M2 Ultra and M2 MaxGeneral
| Vendor | Apple | Apple |
| Released | May 5, 2023 | January 17, 2023 |
| Type | Laptop | Laptop |
| Instruction Set | ARMv8 | ARMv8 |
| Codename | Apple M2 | Apple M2 |
| Integrated GPU | Apple M2 Ultra GPU (76-core) | Apple M2 Max GPU (38-core) |
| Successor | - Apple M4 Ultra | - Apple M5 Max (40-сore GPU) |
CPU
| P-Cores | 16 | 8 |
| P-Threads | 16 | 8 |
| Base Frequency (P) | 3.5 GHz | 3.5 GHz |
| E-Cores | 8 | 4 |
| E-Threads | 8 | 4 |
| Base Frequency (E) | 2.4 GHz | 2.4 GHz |
| Total Cores | 24 | 12 |
| Total Threads | 24 | 12 |
| Multiplier | 35x | 35x |
| L1 Cache | 192K (per core) | 192K (per core) |
| L2 Cache | 64MB (shared) | 32MB (shared) |
| Unlocked Multiplier | No | No |
Package
| Transistors | 134 billions | 67 billions |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 5 nm |
| TDP (PL1) | 80 W | 50 W |
| Socket | Apple M-Socket | Apple M-Socket |
| Peak Temperature | 100°C | 100°C |
Laptop processors ranking (24th and 64th place)
iGPU
| Integrated Graphics | Apple M2 Ultra GPU (76-core) | Apple M2 Max GPU (38-core) |
| GPU Base Clock | - | 450 MHz |
| GPU Boost Clock | 1398 MHz | 1398 MHz |
| Shading Units | - | 4864 |
| TMUs | - | 304 |
| ROPs | - | 152 |
| Execution Units | - | 608 |
| TGP | - | 70 W |
iGPU FLOPS
Memory Support
| Memory Types | - LPDDR5-6400 | - LPDDR5-6400 |
| Max. Memory Size | 192 GB | 96 GB |
| Memory Channels | 8 | 4 |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | 819.2 GB/s | 409.6 GB/s |
| ECC Support | No | No |
Misc
| PCI Express Version | 4.0 | 4.0 |
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