Apple M2 Ultra vs AMD Ryzen 3 3250U

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Apple M2 Ultra AMD Ryzen 3 3250U

We compared two laptop CPUs: Apple M2 Ultra with 24 cores 3.5GHz and AMD Ryzen 3 3250U with 2 cores 2.6GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

Apple M2 Ultra 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Higher specification of memory (LPDDR5-6400 vs DDR4-2400)

Larger memory bandwidth (800GB/s vs 38.4GB/s)

Newer PCIe version (4.0 vs 3.0)

Higher base frequency (3.5GHz vs 2.6GHz)

AMD Ryzen 3 3250U 's Advantages

Lower TDP (12W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

Cinebench R23 Single Core

Apple M2 Ultra +107%

1741

AMD Ryzen 3 3250U

839

Cinebench R23 Multi Core

Apple M2 Ultra +1367%

29150

AMD Ryzen 3 3250U

1987

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple M2 Ultra +203%

2790

AMD Ryzen 3 3250U

920

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple M2 Ultra +1084%

21217

AMD Ryzen 3 3250U

1791

Blender

Apple M2 Ultra +2227%

512

AMD Ryzen 3 3250U

22

Geekbench 5 Single Core

Apple M2 Ultra +133%

1956

AMD Ryzen 3 3250U

838

Geekbench 5 Multi Core

Apple M2 Ultra +1681%

27945

AMD Ryzen 3 3250U

1569

Passmark CPU Single Core

Apple M2 Ultra +130%

4137

AMD Ryzen 3 3250U

1798

Passmark CPU Multi Core

Apple M2 Ultra +1160%

48776

AMD Ryzen 3 3250U

3870

Apple M2 Ultra

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AMD Ryzen 3 3250U

General Parameters

May 2023

Release Date

Jan 2020

Apple

Manufacturer

AMD

Laptop

Type

Laptop

ARMv8

Instruction Set

x86-64

Apple M2

Core Architecture

Zen+

Apple M-Socket

Socket

FP5

Apple M2 Max GPU (76-core)

Integrated Graphics

Radeon RX Vega 3

Package

134 billions

Transistor Count

4.94 billions

5 nm

Manufacturing Process

14 nm

Apple M-Socket

Socket

FP5

60 W

Power Consumption

12-25 W

100°C

Peak Operating Temperature

95 °C

CPU Performance

16

Performance Cores

2

16

Performance Core Threads

4

3.5 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.6 GHz

-

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3.5 GHz

8

Efficiency Cores

-

8

Efficiency Core Threads

-

2.4 GHz

Efficiency Core Base Frequency

-

24

Total Core Count

2

24

Total Thread Count

4

-

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

35x

Multiplier

26x

192 K per core

L1 Cache

96 K per core

64 MB shared

L2 Cache

512 K per core

-

L3 Cache

4 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

Memory Parameters

LPDDR5-6400

Memory Types

DDR4-2400

192 GB

Max Memory Size

32 GB

16

Max Memory Channels

2

800 GB/s

Max Memory Bandwidth

38.4 GB/s

No

ECC Memory Support

No

Graphics Card Parameters

true

Integrated Graphics

true

-

GPU Base Frequency

300 MHz

-

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

1200 MHz

-

Shader Units

192

-

Texture Units

12

-

Raster Operation Units

8

-

Execution Units

3

-

Power Consumption

15 W

-

Max Resolution

3840x2160 - 60 Hz

-

Graphics Performance

0.54 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

-

Official Website

AMD Ryzen 3 3250U

4.0

PCIe Version

3.0

-

PCIe Lanes

8

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