Apple M2 Ultra vs AMD Ryzen 5 8540U

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Apple M2 Ultra AMD Ryzen 5 8540U

We compared two laptop CPUs: Apple M2 Ultra with 24 cores 3.5GHz and AMD Ryzen 5 8540U with 6 cores 3.2GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

Apple M2 Ultra 's Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (800GB/s vs 89.6GB/s)

Higher base frequency (3.5GHz vs 3.2GHz)

AMD Ryzen 5 8540U 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Higher specification of memory (LPDDR5x-7500 vs LPDDR5-6400)

Lower TDP (15W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

Cinebench R23 Single Core

Apple M2 Ultra

1741

AMD Ryzen 5 8540U +4%

1814

Cinebench R23 Multi Core

Apple M2 Ultra +177%

29150

AMD Ryzen 5 8540U

10508

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple M2 Ultra +16%

2790

AMD Ryzen 5 8540U

2390

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple M2 Ultra +159%

21217

AMD Ryzen 5 8540U

8172

Apple M2 Ultra

VS

AMD Ryzen 5 8540U

General Parameters

May 2023

Release Date

Dec 2023

Apple

Manufacturer

Amd

Laptop

Type

Laptop

ARMv8

Instruction Set

x86-64

Apple M2

Core Architecture

Hawk Point

Apple M-Socket

Socket

FP7

Apple M2 Max GPU (76-core)

Integrated Graphics

Radeon 740M

-

Generation

Ryzen 5 (Zen 4 (Hawk Point))

Package

134 billions

Transistor Count

20.9 billions

5 nm

Manufacturing Process

4 nm

Apple M-Socket

Socket

FP7

60 W

Power Consumption

15-30 W

100°C

Peak Operating Temperature

100°C

-

Foundry

TSMC

-

Die Size

137 mm²

-

Package

FP7, FP7r2

CPU Performance

16

Performance Cores

6

16

Performance Core Threads

12

3.5 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

3.2 GHz

-

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

4.9 GHz

8

Efficiency Cores

4

8

Efficiency Core Threads

8

2.4 GHz

Efficiency Core Base Frequency

-

24

Total Core Count

6

24

Total Thread Count

12

-

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

35x

Multiplier

32x

192 K per core

L1 Cache

64 K per core

64 MB shared

L2 Cache

1 MB per core

-

L3 Cache

16 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

-

SMP

1

Memory Parameters

LPDDR5-6400

Memory Types

DDR5-5600, LPDDR5x-7500

192 GB

Max Memory Size

256 GB

16

Max Memory Channels

2

800 GB/s

Max Memory Bandwidth

89.6 GB/s

No

ECC Memory Support

No

Graphics Card Parameters

true

Integrated Graphics

true

-

GPU Base Frequency

1500 MHz

-

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

2800 MHz

-

Shader Units

256

-

Texture Units

16

-

Raster Operation Units

8

-

Execution Units

4

-

Power Consumption

15 W

-

Graphics Performance

2.56 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

-

Official Website

AMD Ryzen 5 8540U

4.0

PCIe Version

4.0

-

PCIe Lanes

14

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