Apple M2 Ultra vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940H

VS

Apple M2 Ultra

AMD Ryzen 9 8940H

We compared two laptop CPUs: Apple M2 Ultra with 24 cores 3.5GHz and AMD Ryzen 9 8940H with 8 cores 4.0GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

Apple M2 Ultra 's Advantages

Higher specification of memory (6400 vs 5600)

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

AMD Ryzen 9 8940H 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Higher base frequency (4.0GHz vs 3.5GHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 5nm)

Lower TDP (54W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple M2 Ultra +11%

2790

AMD Ryzen 9 8940H

2512

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple M2 Ultra +61%

21217

AMD Ryzen 9 8940H

13104

Apple M2 Ultra

VS

AMD Ryzen 9 8940H

General Parameters

May 2023

Release Date

Jan 2024

Apple

Manufacturer

AMD

Laptop

Type

Laptop

ARMv8

Instruction Set

x86-64

Apple M2

Core Architecture

Zen 4 (Phoenix)

Apple M-Socket

Socket

FP8

Apple M2 Max GPU (76-core)

Integrated Graphics

Radeon 780M

Package

134 billions

Transistor Count

25 billions

5 nm

Manufacturing Process

4 nm

60 W

Power Consumption

35-54 W

100°C

Peak Operating Temperature

100°C

CPU Performance

16

Performance Cores

8

16

Performance Core Threads

16

3.5 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

4.0 GHz

-

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

5.2 GHz

8

Efficiency Cores

-

8

Efficiency Core Threads

-

2.4 GHz

Efficiency Core Base Frequency

-

24

Total Core Count

8

24

Total Thread Count

16

-

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

35x

Multiplier

40x

192 K per core

L1 Cache

64 K per core

64 MB shared

L2 Cache

8 MB

-

L3 Cache

16 MB

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

Memory Parameters

LPDDR5-6400

Memory Types

DDR5-5600

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

-

Graphics Card Parameters

true

Integrated Graphics

true

-

GPU Base Frequency

1500 MHz

-

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

2800 MHz

-

Shader Units

768

-

Texture Units

48

-

Raster Operation Units

32

-

Execution Units

12

-

Power Consumption

15 W

-

Max Resolution

7680x4320 - 60 Hz

-

Graphics Performance

8.12 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

-

Official Website

AMD Ryzen 9 8940H

4.0

PCIe Version

4.0

-

PCIe Lanes

20

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