AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8540U vs Apple M2 Max

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AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8540U

Apple M2 Max

We compared two laptop CPUs: AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8540U with 6 cores 3.7GHz and Apple M2 Max with 12 cores 3.5GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8540U 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Higher specification of memory (7500 vs 6400)

Higher base frequency (3.7GHz vs 3.5GHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 5nm)

Apple M2 Max 's Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 89.6GB/s)

Newer PCIe version (4.0 vs 4)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8540U

2359

Apple M2 Max +14%

2696

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8540U

8271

Apple M2 Max +80%

14905

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8540U

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Apple M2 Max

General Parameters

Apr 2024

Release Date

Jan 2023

AMD

Manufacturer

Apple

Laptop

Type

Laptop

-

Instruction Set

ARMv8

Hawk Point 2

Core Architecture

Apple M2

AMD Socket FP7

Socket

Apple M-Socket

Radeon 740M

Integrated Graphics

Apple M2 Max GPU (38-core)

Ryzen 5 (Zen 4 (Hawk Point))

Generation

-

Package

20.9 billions

Transistor Count

67 billions

4 nm

Manufacturing Process

5 nm

15-30 W

Power Consumption

30 W

-

Peak Operating Temperature

100°C

TSMC

Foundry

-

137 mm²

Die Size

-

CPU Performance

2

Performance Cores

8

4

Performance Core Threads

8

3.7 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

3.5 GHz

4.9 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

-

4

Efficiency Cores

4

8

Efficiency Core Threads

4

3 GHz

Efficiency Core Base Frequency

2.4 GHz

3.5 GHz

Efficiency Core Turbo Frequency

-

6

Total Core Count

12

Total Thread Count

12

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

-

37

Multiplier

35x

64 KB per core

L1 Cache

192 K per core

6 MB

L2 Cache

32 MB shared

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

1

SMP

-

Memory Parameters

DDR5-5600,LPDDR5x-7500

Memory Types

LPDDR5-6400

256

Max Memory Size

96 GB

2

Max Memory Channels

8

89.6 GB/s

Max Memory Bandwidth

409.6 GB/s

Yes

ECC Memory Support

No

Graphics Card Parameters

true

Integrated Graphics

true

-

GPU Base Frequency

450 MHz

2800 MHz

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

1398 MHz

-

Shader Units

4864

-

Texture Units

304

-

Raster Operation Units

152

4

Execution Units

608

-

Power Consumption

70 W

-

Max Resolution

7680x4320 - 60 Hz

-

Graphics Performance

13.6 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8540U

Official Website

-

4

PCIe Version

4.0

14

PCIe Lanes

-

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