Apple M4 Ultra vs M2 Ultra
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We compared two CPUs: the 4.52 GHz Apple M4 Ultra (desktop) with 32-cores against the 3.5 GHz M2 Ultra (laptop) with 24-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.
Please note that the tests on the Apple M4 Ultra are done on an engineering sample provided by our insiders. The data will be more accurate after the final version of this CPU is available.
Key Differences
Advantages of Apple M4 Ultra
- Newer - released 2 years later
- More modern manufacturing process – 3 versus 5 nanometers
- 51% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 4062 vs 2685 points
- Has 8 more physical cores
- Around 232.8 GB/s (28%) 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 place)
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
| File compression | - | 2140 MB/sec |
| Clang compilation | - | 226.4 Klines/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | - | 569.8 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | - | 603.6 Mpixels/sec |
| Text processing | - | 272.4 pages/sec |
| Background blur | - | 56.5 images/sec |
| Photo processing | - | 170.7 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | - | 33.8 Mpixels/sec |
PassMark
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
| Integer math | - | 117.4 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | - | 148.9 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | - | 712M Primes/sec |
| Random string sorting | - | 83.7M Strings/sec |
| Data encryption | - | 32 GBytes/sec |
| Data compression | - | 682.7 MBytes/sec |
| Physics | - | 7650 Frames/sec |
| Extended instructions | - | 33.2B Matrices/sec |
Blender
Blender CPU
Performance Per Watt
| Cinebench 2024 / Watt | - | 24.3 PPW |
| Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt | - | 267.3 PPW |
| Passmark CPU Mark / Watt | - | 636.8 PPW |
| Blender / Watt | - | 6.27 PPW |
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.
Specifications
Full technical specification of Apple M4 Ultra and M2 UltraGeneral
| Vendor | Apple | Apple |
| Released | May 1, 2025 | May 5, 2023 |
| Type | Desktop | Laptop |
| Instruction Set | ARMv9 | ARMv8 |
| Codename | Apple M4 | Apple M2 |
| Integrated GPU | Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core) | Apple M2 Ultra GPU (76-core) |
| Successor | - | - Apple M4 Ultra |
CPU
| P-Cores | 24 | 16 |
| P-Threads | 24 | 16 |
| Base Frequency (P) | 4.52 GHz | 3.5 GHz |
| E-Cores | 8 | 8 |
| E-Threads | 8 | 8 |
| Base Frequency (E) | 2.89 GHz | 2.4 GHz |
| Total Cores | 32 | 24 |
| Total Threads | 32 | 24 |
| Multiplier | 45x | 35x |
| L1 Cache | - | 192K (per core) |
| L2 Cache | - | 64MB (shared) |
| Unlocked Multiplier | No | No |
Package
| Transistors | - | 134 billions |
| Fabrication Process | 3 nm | 5 nm |
| TDP (PL1) | - | 80 W |
| Socket | Apple M-Socket | Apple M-Socket |
| Peak Temperature | 100°C | 100°C |
Laptop processors ranking (#24th place)
iGPU
| Integrated Graphics | Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core) | Apple M2 Ultra GPU (76-core) |
| GPU Base Clock | 500 MHz | - |
| GPU Boost Clock | 1578 MHz | 1398 MHz |
| Shading Units | 10240 | - |
| TMUs | 640 | - |
| ROPs | 320 | - |
| Execution Units | 1280 | - |
| TGP | 120 W | - |
iGPU FLOPS
Memory Support
| Memory Types | - LPDDR5X-8533 | - LPDDR5-6400 |
| Max. Memory Size | 192 GB | 192 GB |
| Memory Channels | 64 | 8 |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | 1052 GB/s | 819.2 GB/s |
| ECC Support | No | No |
Misc
| PCI Express Version | - | 4.0 |
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