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Apple M2 Ultra vs Apple M2

79 out of 100
Apple M2 Ultra
VS
57 out of 100
Apple M2
Apple M2 Ultra
Apple M2

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 3.5 GHz Apple M2 Ultra with 24-cores against the 3.5 GHz Apple M2 with 8-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 M2 and Ultra
Advantages of Apple M2 Ultra
  • Supports up to 192 GB LPDDR5-6400 RAM
  • Around 716.8 GB/s (700%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
  • Has 16 more physical cores
  • Newer - released 11 months later

Test in Benchmarks

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

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
M2 Ultra
125
Apple M2
125
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
M2 Ultra +234%
1941
Apple M2
582
Cinebench 2026 (Multi) 7481 -
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 +4%
2685
Apple M2
2589
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
M2 Ultra +111%
21387
Apple M2
10122
File compression 2140 MB/sec 1130 MB/sec
Clang compilation 226.4 Klines/sec 80.4 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 569.8 pages/sec 235.3 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 603.6 Mpixels/sec 266.1 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 272.4 pages/sec 257.4 pages/sec
Background blur 56.5 images/sec 42.1 images/sec
Photo processing 170.7 images/sec 107 images/sec
Ray tracing 33.8 Mpixels/sec 10.5 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 728 & 465 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
M2 Ultra +8%
4208
Apple M2
3883
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
M2 Ultra +226%
50945
Apple M2
15651
Integer math 117.4 GOps/sec 37 GOps/sec
Floating point math 148.9 GOps/sec 37.5 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 712M Primes/sec 174M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 83.7M Strings/sec 23.7M Strings/sec
Data encryption 32 GBytes/sec 9.5 GBytes/sec
Data compression 682.7 MBytes/sec 185.8 MBytes/sec
Physics 7650 Frames/sec 1667 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 33.2B Matrices/sec 7.8B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 201 & 4611 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
M2 Ultra +359%
501.6
Apple M2
109.19

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 24.3 PPW 32.3 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 267.3 PPW 562.3 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 636.8 PPW 869.5 PPW
Blender / Watt 6.27 PPW 6.07 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 M2
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πŸ“˜ 2026-03-14 (T)Geekbench 6 CPU2647 / 10245
πŸ“˜ 2026-01-05 (AR)Geekbench 6 CPU2655 / 10211
πŸ“˜ 2025-10-24 (Shivam)Geekbench 6 CPU2619 / 9900
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Specifications

Full technical specification of Apple M2 Ultra and Apple M2

General

Vendor Apple Apple
Released May 5, 2023 June 6, 2022
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set ARMv8 ARMv8
Codename Apple M2 Apple M2
Integrated GPU Apple M2 Ultra GPU (76-core) Apple M2 GPU
Successor - Apple M4 Ultra - Apple M5 (10-Core)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 16 4
P-Threads 16 4
Base Frequency (P) 3.5 GHz 3.5 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 8 4
E-Threads 8 4
Base Frequency (E) 2.4 GHz 2.4 GHz
Total
Total Cores 24 8
Total Threads 24 8
Multiplier 35x -
L1 Cache 192K (per core) 192K (per core)
L2 Cache 64MB (shared) 16MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Transistors 134 billions 20 billions
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
TDP (PL1) 80 W 18 W
Socket Apple M-Socket Apple M-Socket
Peak Temperature 100Β°C -
Laptop processors ranking (24th and 133rd place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Apple M2 Ultra GPU (76-core) Apple M2 GPU
GPU Base Clock - 500 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1398 MHz 1398 MHz
Shading Units - 1024
TMUs - 64
ROPs - 32
Execution Units - 128
TGP - 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
M2 Ultra
n/a
Apple M2
2.9 TFLOPS
See: Apple M2 GPU (8-core) benchmarks

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR5-6400 - LPDDR5-6400
Max. Memory Size 192 GB 24 GB
Memory Channels 8 8
Max. Memory Bandwidth 819.2 GB/s 102.4 GB/s
ECC Support No No

Misc

PCI Express Version 4.0 4.0

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Comments

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