Apple M4 Ultra vs AMD Ryzen 9 9950X

VS

Apple M4 Ultra

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X

We compared the laptop Apple M4 Ultra with 32 cores 4.52GHz and the desktop AMD Ryzen 9 9950X with 16 cores 4.3GHz . 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 11 months late

Higher specification of memory (8533 vs 5600)

Higher base frequency (4.52GHz vs 4.3GHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 4nm)

Score

Benchmark

Cinebench R23 Single Core

Apple M4 Ultra

2199

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X +1%

2237

Cinebench R23 Multi Core

Apple M4 Ultra +8%

44742

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X

41345

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple M4 Ultra +18%

4065

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X

3416

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple M4 Ultra +51%

32892

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X

21740

Apple M4 Ultra

VS

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X

General Parameters

May 2025

Release Date

Jun 2024

Apple

Manufacturer

Amd

Laptop

Type

Desktop

ARMv9

Instruction Set

x86-64

Apple M4

Core Architecture

Zen 5 (Granite Ridge)

Apple M-Socket

Socket

AM5

Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core)

Integrated Graphics

Radeon Graphics

-

Generation

Zen 5 (Granite Ridge)

Package

-

Transistor Count

13.1 billions

3 nm

Manufacturing Process

4 nm

-

Power Consumption

170 W

-

Max Turbo Power Consumption

230 W

100 °C

Peak Operating Temperature

95 °C

-

Foundry

TSMC

-

I/O Process Size

6 nm

CPU Performance

24

Performance Cores

16

24

Performance Core Threads

32

4.52 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

4.3 GHz

-

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

5.7 GHz

8

Efficiency Cores

-

8

Efficiency Core Threads

-

2.89 GHz

Efficiency Core Base Frequency

-

32

Total Core Count

16

32

Total Thread Count

32

-

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

45

Multiplier

43x

-

L1 Cache

80 K per core

-

L2 Cache

16 MB

-

L3 Cache

64 MB

No

Unlocked Multiplier

Yes

-

SMP

1

Memory Parameters

LPDDR5X-8533

Memory Types

DDR5-5600

192 GB

Max Memory Size

192 GB

8

Max Memory Channels

2

-

Max Memory Bandwidth

89.6 GB/s

No

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Graphics Card Parameters

true

Integrated Graphics

true

500 MHz

GPU Base Frequency

1500 MHz

1800 MHz

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

2200 MHz

10240

Shader Units

640

Texture Units

320

Raster Operation Units

1280

Execution Units

2

120

Power Consumption

36.9 TFLOPS

Graphics Performance

0 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

-

Official Website

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X

-

PCIe Version

5.0

-

PCIe Lanes

28

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