Apple M2 Ultra vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8540U

VS

Apple M2 Ultra

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8540U

We compared two laptop CPUs: Apple M2 Ultra with 24 cores 3.5GHz and AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8540U with 6 cores 3.7GHz . 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)

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8540U 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Higher specification of memory (7500 vs 6400)

Newer PCIe version (4 vs 4.0)

Higher base frequency (3.7GHz vs 3.5GHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 5nm)

Lower TDP (30W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple M2 Ultra +18%

2790

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8540U

2359

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple M2 Ultra +156%

21217

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8540U

8271

Apple M2 Ultra

VS

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8540U

General Parameters

May 2023

Release Date

Apr 2024

Apple

Manufacturer

AMD

Laptop

Type

Laptop

ARMv8

Instruction Set

-

Apple M2

Core Architecture

Hawk Point 2

Apple M-Socket

Socket

AMD 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

60 W

Power Consumption

15-30 W

100°C

Peak Operating Temperature

-

Foundry

TSMC

-

Die Size

137 mm²

CPU Performance

16

Performance Cores

2

16

Performance Core Threads

4

3.5 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

3.7 GHz

-

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

4.9 GHz

8

Efficiency Cores

4

8

Efficiency Core Threads

8

2.4 GHz

Efficiency Core Base Frequency

3 GHz

-

Efficiency Core Turbo Frequency

3.5 GHz

24

Total Core Count

6

24

Total Thread Count

12

-

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

35x

Multiplier

37

192 K per core

L1 Cache

64 KB per core

64 MB shared

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

L3 Cache

16 MB

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

-

SMP

1

Memory Parameters

LPDDR5-6400

Memory Types

DDR5-5600,LPDDR5x-7500

192 GB

Max Memory Size

256

16

Max Memory Channels

2

800 GB/s

Max Memory Bandwidth

89.6 GB/s

No

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Graphics Card Parameters

true

Integrated Graphics

true

-

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

2800 MHz

-

Execution Units

4

Miscellaneous

-

Official Website

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8540U

4.0

PCIe Version

4

-

PCIe Lanes

14

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