Apple M2 Ultra vs AMD Ryzen 5 4600U

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Apple M2 Ultra AMD Ryzen 5 4600U

We compared two laptop CPUs: Apple M2 Ultra with 24 cores 3.5GHz and AMD Ryzen 5 4600U with 6 cores 2.1GHz . 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 LPDDR4-4266)

Larger memory bandwidth (800GB/s vs 68.27GB/s)

Newer PCIe version (4.0 vs 3.0)

Higher base frequency (3.5GHz vs 2.1GHz)

AMD Ryzen 5 4600U 's Advantages

Lower TDP (10W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

Cinebench R23 Single Core

Apple M2 Ultra +52%

1741

AMD Ryzen 5 4600U

1143

Cinebench R23 Multi Core

Apple M2 Ultra +266%

29150

AMD Ryzen 5 4600U

7960

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple M2 Ultra +105%

2790

AMD Ryzen 5 4600U

1359

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple M2 Ultra +350%

21217

AMD Ryzen 5 4600U

4708

Geekbench 5 Single Core

Apple M2 Ultra +83%

1956

AMD Ryzen 5 4600U

1068

Geekbench 5 Multi Core

Apple M2 Ultra +448%

27945

AMD Ryzen 5 4600U

5095

Passmark CPU Single Core

Apple M2 Ultra +72%

4137

AMD Ryzen 5 4600U

2405

Passmark CPU Multi Core

Apple M2 Ultra +264%

48776

AMD Ryzen 5 4600U

13395

Apple M2 Ultra

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AMD Ryzen 5 4600U

General Parameters

May 2023

Release Date

Jan 2020

Apple

Manufacturer

AMD

Laptop

Type

Laptop

ARMv8

Instruction Set

x86-64

Apple M2

Core Architecture

Zen 2

Apple M-Socket

Socket

FP6

Apple M2 Max GPU (76-core)

Integrated Graphics

Radeon Vega 6

Package

134 billions

Transistor Count

-

5 nm

Manufacturing Process

7 nm

Apple M-Socket

Socket

FP6

60 W

Power Consumption

10-25 W

100°C

Peak Operating Temperature

105 °C

CPU Performance

16

Performance Cores

6

16

Performance Core Threads

12

3.5 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.1 GHz

-

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

4 GHz

8

Efficiency Cores

-

8

Efficiency Core Threads

-

2.4 GHz

Efficiency Core Base Frequency

-

24

Total Core Count

6

24

Total Thread Count

12

-

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

35x

Multiplier

21x

192 K per core

L1 Cache

32 K per core

64 MB shared

L2 Cache

512 K per core

-

L3 Cache

8 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

Memory Parameters

LPDDR5-6400

Memory Types

DDR4-3200, LPDDR4-4266

192 GB

Max Memory Size

32 GB

16

Max Memory Channels

2

800 GB/s

Max Memory Bandwidth

68.27 GB/s

No

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Graphics Card Parameters

true

Integrated Graphics

true

-

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

1500 MHz

-

Shader Units

384

-

Texture Units

24

-

Raster Operation Units

8

-

Power Consumption

15 W

Miscellaneous

-

Official Website

AMD Ryzen 5 4600U

4.0

PCIe Version

3.0

-

PCIe Lanes

16

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