Apple M4 Pro (12-Core) vs M2 Ultra
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We compared two laptop CPUs: the 4.51 GHz Apple M4 Pro (12-Core) with 12-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 Pro (12-Core)
- Newer - released 1 year and 6 months later
- More modern manufacturing process β 3 versus 5 nanometers
- 44% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 3864 vs 2685 points
Advantages of Apple M2 Ultra
- Supports up to 192 GB LPDDR5-6400 RAM
- Around 546.2 GB/s (200%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
- Has 12 more physical cores
Test in Benchmarks
Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasksCinebench
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
| Cinebench 2026 (Multi) | 5470 | 7481 |
Cinebench Scores (80th and 31st place)
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
| File compression | 2120 MB/sec | 2140 MB/sec |
| Clang compilation | 165.8 Klines/sec | 226.4 Klines/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 484.7 pages/sec | 569.8 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 486.8 Mpixels/sec | 603.6 Mpixels/sec |
| Text processing | 368.5 pages/sec | 272.4 pages/sec |
| Background blur | 84.2 images/sec | 56.5 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 189.3 images/sec | 170.7 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 25.9 Mpixels/sec | 33.8 Mpixels/sec |
PassMark
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
| Integer math | 70.9 GOps/sec | 117.4 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | 71.5 GOps/sec | 148.9 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | 460M Primes/sec | 712M Primes/sec |
| Random string sorting | 46.4M Strings/sec | 83.7M Strings/sec |
| Data encryption | 19.5 GBytes/sec | 32 GBytes/sec |
| Data compression | 409.9 MBytes/sec | 682.7 MBytes/sec |
| Physics | 4875 Frames/sec | 7650 Frames/sec |
| Extended instructions | 21.8B Matrices/sec | 33.2B Matrices/sec |
Blender
Blender CPU
Performance Per Watt
| Cinebench 2024 / Watt | 37.4 PPW | 24.3 PPW |
| Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt | 539.4 PPW | 267.3 PPW |
| Passmark CPU Mark / Watt | 860.8 PPW | 636.8 PPW |
| Blender / Watt | - | 6.27 PPW |
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.
Recent User Tests
Apple M4 Pro (12-Core)
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| π 2026-03-07 (skibidigomgom) | Cinebench 2024 | 172 / 1421 |
| π 2025-11-21 (TommyYOyoyo) | Geekbench 6 CPU | 4066 / 21270 |
| π 2025-04-16 (Infrra) | Cinebench 2024 | 169 / 1297 |
| π 2025-02-23 (Amandeep) | Geekbench 6 CPU | 3911 / 20685 |
Apple M2 Ultra
No benchmark results yet
Specifications
Full technical specification of Apple M4 Pro (12-Core) and M2 UltraGeneral
| Vendor | Apple | Apple |
| Released | October 29, 2024 | May 5, 2023 |
| Type | Laptop | Laptop |
| Instruction Set | ARMv9 | ARMv8 |
| Codename | Apple M4 | Apple M2 |
| Model number | T6040 | - |
| Integrated GPU | Apple M4 Pro GPU (16-core) | Apple M2 Ultra GPU (76-core) |
| Successor | - Apple M5 Pro (15-Core) | - Apple M4 Ultra |
CPU
| P-Cores | 8 | 16 |
| P-Threads | 8 | 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 | 12 | 24 |
| Total Threads | 12 | 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) | 38 W | 80 W |
| Socket | Apple M-Socket | Apple M-Socket |
| Peak Temperature | 100Β°C | 100Β°C |
Laptop processors ranking (13th and 24th place)
iGPU
| Integrated Graphics | Apple M4 Pro GPU (16-core) | Apple M2 Ultra GPU (76-core) |
| GPU Base Clock | 500 MHz | - |
| GPU Boost Clock | 1578 MHz | 1398 MHz |
| Shading Units | 2048 | - |
| TMUs | 128 | - |
| ROPs | 64 | - |
| Execution Units | 256 | - |
| TGP | 26 W | - |
iGPU FLOPS
Memory Support
| Memory Types | - LPDDR5X-8533 | - LPDDR5-6400 |
| Max. Memory Size | 64 GB | 192 GB |
| Memory Channels | 16 | 8 |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | 273 GB/s | 819.2 GB/s |
| ECC Support | No | No |
Misc
| PCI Express Version | - | 4.0 |
Further details
Notes on M4 Pro (12-Core):
- SoC is designed using ARMv9.2-A architecture.
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