Apple M4 Max (16-Core) vs M2 Ultra
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We compared two laptop CPUs: the 4.51 GHz Apple M4 Max (16-Core) with 16-cores against the 3.5 GHz M2 Ultra with 24-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 M4 Max (16-Core)
- Newer - released 1 year and 6 months later
- More modern manufacturing process โ 3 versus 5 nanometers
- 48% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 3986 vs 2685 points
Advantages of Apple M2 Ultra
- Has 8 more physical cores
- Supports up to 192 GB LPDDR5-6400 RAM
- Around 273.2 GB/s (50%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
Test in Benchmarks
Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasksCinebench
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
| Cinebench 2026 (Multi) | 6324 | 7481 |
Cinebench Scores (23rd and 31st place)
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
| File compression | 2680 MB/sec | 2140 MB/sec |
| Clang compilation | 219.7 Klines/sec | 226.4 Klines/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 699.3 pages/sec | 569.8 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 771.1 Mpixels/sec | 603.6 Mpixels/sec |
| Text processing | 381.1 pages/sec | 272.4 pages/sec |
| Background blur | 92.2 images/sec | 56.5 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 236.2 images/sec | 170.7 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 36.1 Mpixels/sec | 33.8 Mpixels/sec |
PassMark
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
| Integer math | 98.9 GOps/sec | 117.4 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | 101.4 GOps/sec | 148.9 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | 627M Primes/sec | 712M Primes/sec |
| Random string sorting | 64.5M Strings/sec | 83.7M Strings/sec |
| Data encryption | 27 GBytes/sec | 32 GBytes/sec |
| Data compression | 572.9 MBytes/sec | 682.7 MBytes/sec |
| Physics | 6614 Frames/sec | 7650 Frames/sec |
| Extended instructions | 30.3B Matrices/sec | 33.2B Matrices/sec |
Blender
Blender CPU
Performance Per Watt
| Cinebench 2024 / Watt | 29.2 PPW | 24.3 PPW |
| Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt | 374.1 PPW | 267.3 PPW |
| Passmark CPU Mark / Watt | 627.2 PPW | 636.8 PPW |
| Blender / Watt | 6.79 PPW | 6.27 PPW |
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.
Recent User Tests
Apple M4 Max (16-Core)
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| ๐ 2025-07-20 (Rahul) | Cinebench 2024 | 177 / 1954 |
| ๐ 2025-07-10 (thomas) | Geekbench 6 CPU | 4094 / 26275 |
| ๐ 2025-04-02 (BigJake) | Cinebench 2024 | 178 / 2001 |
| ๐ 2025-02-17 (MM) | Cinebench 2024 | 173 / 1928 |
| ๐ 2024-11-12 (Jason C) | Cinebench 2024 | 177 / 2004 |
Apple M2 Ultra
No benchmark results yet
Specifications
Full technical specification of Apple M4 Max (16-Core) and M2 UltraGeneral
| Vendor | Apple | Apple |
| Released | October 30, 2024 | May 5, 2023 |
| Type | Laptop | Laptop |
| Instruction Set | ARMv9 | ARMv8 |
| Codename | Apple M4 | Apple M2 |
| Model number | T6041 | - |
| Integrated GPU | Apple M4 Max GPU (40-core) | Apple M2 Ultra GPU (76-core) |
| Successor | - Apple M5 Max (40-ัore GPU) | - Apple M4 Ultra |
CPU
| P-Cores | 12 | 16 |
| P-Threads | 12 | 16 |
| Base Frequency (P) | 4.51 GHz | 3.5 GHz |
| E-Cores | 4 | 8 |
| E-Threads | 4 | 8 |
| Base Frequency (E) | 2.59 GHz | 2.4 GHz |
| Total Cores | 16 | 24 |
| Total Threads | 16 | 24 |
| Bus Frequency | 100 MHz | - |
| Multiplier | 45x | 35x |
| L1 Cache | 192K (per core) | 192K (per core) |
| L2 Cache | 32MB (shared) | 64MB (shared) |
| Unlocked Multiplier | No | No |
Package
| Transistors | - | 134 billions |
| Fabrication Process | 3 nm | 5 nm |
| TDP (PL1) | 70 W | 80 W |
| Socket | Apple M-Socket | Apple M-Socket |
| Peak Temperature | 100ยฐC | 100ยฐC |
Laptop processors ranking (6th and 24th place)
iGPU
| Integrated Graphics | Apple M4 Max GPU (40-core) | Apple M2 Ultra GPU (76-core) |
| GPU Base Clock | 500 MHz | - |
| GPU Boost Clock | 1578 MHz | 1398 MHz |
| Shading Units | 5120 | - |
| TMUs | 320 | - |
| ROPs | 160 | - |
| Execution Units | 640 | - |
| TGP | 50 W | - |
iGPU FLOPS
Memory Support
| Memory Types | - LPDDR5X-8533 | - LPDDR5-6400 |
| Max. Memory Size | 128 GB | 192 GB |
| Memory Channels | 32 | 8 |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | 546 GB/s | 819.2 GB/s |
| ECC Support | No | No |
Misc
| PCI Express Version | - | 4.0 |
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