Apple M4 Ultra vs AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

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Apple M4 Ultra

AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

We compared two laptop CPUs: Apple M4 Ultra with 32 cores 4.52GHz and AMD Ryzen 5 3550H with 4 cores 2.1GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

Apple M4 Ultra 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Better graphics card performance

Higher specification of memory (8533 vs 2400)

Higher base frequency (4.52GHz vs 2.1GHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 12nm)

Score

Benchmark

Cinebench R23 Single Core

Apple M4 Ultra +134%

2199

AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

936

Cinebench R23 Multi Core

Apple M4 Ultra +989%

44742

AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

4108

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple M4 Ultra +263%

4065

AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

1119

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple M4 Ultra +798%

32892

AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

3661

Apple M4 Ultra

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AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

General Parameters

May 2025

Release Date

Jan 2019

Apple

Manufacturer

AMD

Laptop

Type

Laptop

ARMv9

Instruction Set

x86-64

Apple M4

Core Architecture

Picasso

Apple M-Socket

Socket

FP5

Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core)

Integrated Graphics

Radeon Vega 8

Package

-

Transistor Count

4.9 billions

3 nm

Manufacturing Process

12 nm

-

Power Consumption

12-35 W

100 °C

Peak Operating Temperature

105 °C

CPU Performance

24

Performance Cores

4

24

Performance Core Threads

8

4.52 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.1 GHz

-

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3.7 GHz

8

Efficiency Cores

-

8

Efficiency Core Threads

-

2.89 GHz

Efficiency Core Base Frequency

-

32

Total Core Count

4

32

Total Thread Count

8

-

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

45

Multiplier

21x

-

L1 Cache

96 K per core

-

L2 Cache

512 K per core

-

L3 Cache

4 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

Memory Parameters

LPDDR5X-8533

Memory Types

DDR4-2400

192 GB

Max Memory Size

32 GB

8

Max Memory Channels

2

-

Max Memory Bandwidth

35.76 GB/s

No

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Graphics Card Parameters

true

Integrated Graphics

true

500 MHz

GPU Base Frequency

300 MHz

1800 MHz

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

1200 MHz

10240

Shader Units

512

640

Texture Units

32

320

Raster Operation Units

8

1280

Execution Units

8

120

Power Consumption

65 W

-

Max Resolution

3840x2160 - 60 Hz

36.9 TFLOPS

Graphics Performance

1.13 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

-

Official Website

AMD Ryzen 5 3550H

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PCIe Version

3.0

-

PCIe Lanes

12

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