Apple M2 Ultra vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940H

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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 (LPDDR5-6400 vs DDR5-5600)

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)

Lower TDP (35W 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

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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

Apple M-Socket

Socket

FP8

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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