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Apple M2 Ultra vs M1 Pro

79 out of 100
Apple M2 Ultra
VS
58 out of 100
Apple M1 Pro
Apple M2 Ultra
Apple M1 Pro

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 3.5 GHz Apple M2 Ultra with 24-cores against the 3.2 GHz M1 Pro with 10-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Performance
  4. Specs
  5. Comments

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between Pro and Ultra
Advantages of Apple M2 Ultra
  • Supports up to 192 GB LPDDR5-6400 RAM
  • Around 614.4 GB/s (300%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
  • Has 14 more physical cores
  • Newer - released 1 year and 7 months later
  • 15% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2685 vs 2328 points

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
M2 Ultra
vs
M1 Pro

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
M2 Ultra +15%
125
M1 Pro
109
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
M2 Ultra +144%
1941
M1 Pro
796
Cinebench 2026 (Single) - 444
Cinebench 2026 (Multi) 7481 3334
Cinebench Scores (#31st place)
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GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
M2 Ultra +15%
2685
M1 Pro
2328
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
M2 Ultra +108%
21387
M1 Pro
10305
File compression 2140 MB/sec 1230 MB/sec
Clang compilation 226.4 Klines/sec 82.4 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 569.8 pages/sec 249.1 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 603.6 Mpixels/sec 271.3 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 272.4 pages/sec 246.4 pages/sec
Background blur 56.5 images/sec 36.9 images/sec
Photo processing 170.7 images/sec 102.5 images/sec
Ray tracing 33.8 Mpixels/sec 10.7 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 728 & 593 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
M2 Ultra +11%
4208
M1 Pro
3795
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
M2 Ultra +132%
50945
M1 Pro
21934
Integer math 117.4 GOps/sec 45.6 GOps/sec
Floating point math 148.9 GOps/sec 64 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 712M Primes/sec 272M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 83.7M Strings/sec 32.5M Strings/sec
Data encryption 32 GBytes/sec 12.2 GBytes/sec
Data compression 682.7 MBytes/sec 272.2 MBytes/sec
Physics 7650 Frames/sec 2696 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 33.2B Matrices/sec 12.6B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 201 & 2437 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
M2 Ultra +168%
501.6
M1 Pro
186.87

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 24.3 PPW 26.5 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 267.3 PPW 343.5 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 636.8 PPW 731.1 PPW
Blender / Watt 6.27 PPW 6.23 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Apple M2 Ultra
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Apple M1 Pro
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-03-27 (bbffx)Geekbench 6 CPU2450 / 12944
πŸ“˜ 2026-03-27 (bbffx)Cinebench 2026444 / 3334
πŸ“˜ 2026-03-27 (bbffx)Cinebench 2024115 / 857
πŸ“˜ 2025-02-23 (anon121434)Cinebench 202499 / 682
πŸ“˜ 2025-02-19 (serhii)Cinebench 2024109 / 796
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Specifications

Full technical specification of Apple M2 Ultra and M1 Pro

General

Vendor Apple Apple
Released May 5, 2023 October 18, 2021
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set ARMv8 ARMv8
Codename Apple M2 Apple M1
Integrated GPU Apple M2 Ultra GPU (76-core) Apple M1 Pro GPU (16-core)
Successor - Apple M4 Ultra - Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 16 8
P-Threads 16 8
Base Frequency (P) 3.5 GHz 3.2 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 8 2
E-Threads 8 2
Base Frequency (E) 2.4 GHz 2.1 GHz
Total
Total Cores 24 10
Total Threads 24 10
Multiplier 35x -
L1 Cache 192K (per core) 192K (per core)
L2 Cache 64MB (shared) 24MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Transistors 134 billions 33.7 billions
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
TDP (PL1) 80 W 30 W
Socket Apple M-Socket Apple M-Socket
Peak Temperature 100Β°C -
Laptop processors ranking (24th and 124th place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Apple M2 Ultra GPU (76-core) Apple M1 Pro GPU (16-core)
GPU Base Clock - 450 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1398 MHz 1296 MHz
Shading Units - 2048
TMUs - 128
ROPs - 64
Execution Units - 256
TGP - 30 W
iGPU FLOPS
M2 Ultra
n/a
M1 Pro
5.3 TFLOPS
See: Apple M1 Pro GPU (16-core) benchmarks

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR5-6400 - LPDDR5-6400
Max. Memory Size 192 GB 32 GB
Memory Channels 8 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 819.2 GB/s 204.8 GB/s
ECC Support No No

Misc

PCI Express Version 4.0 -

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Comments

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