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Apple M2 Ultra vs M2 Pro

79 out of 100
Apple M2 Ultra
VS
65 out of 100
Apple M2 Pro
Apple M2 Ultra
Apple M2 Pro

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 3.5 GHz Apple M2 Ultra with 24-cores against the 3.5 GHz M2 Pro with 12-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 12 more physical cores

Test in Benchmarks

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

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
M2 Ultra
125
M2 Pro
125
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
M2 Ultra +144%
1941
M2 Pro
795
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 +1%
2685
M2 Pro
2666
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
M2 Ultra +48%
21387
M2 Pro
14489
File compression 2140 MB/sec 1630 MB/sec
Clang compilation 226.4 Klines/sec 125.3 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 569.8 pages/sec 356.9 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 603.6 Mpixels/sec 352.9 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 272.4 pages/sec 266.9 pages/sec
Background blur 56.5 images/sec 53.8 images/sec
Photo processing 170.7 images/sec 126.3 images/sec
Ray tracing 33.8 Mpixels/sec 17 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 728 & 917 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
M2 Ultra +3%
4208
M2 Pro
4089
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
M2 Ultra +91%
50945
M2 Pro
26724
Integer math 117.4 GOps/sec 57.6 GOps/sec
Floating point math 148.9 GOps/sec 73.2 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 712M Primes/sec 354M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 83.7M Strings/sec 40.9M Strings/sec
Data encryption 32 GBytes/sec 15.6 GBytes/sec
Data compression 682.7 MBytes/sec 334.8 MBytes/sec
Physics 7650 Frames/sec 3611 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 33.2B Matrices/sec 14.7B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 201 & 584 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
M2 Ultra +153%
501.6
M2 Pro
198.23

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 483 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 636.8 PPW 890.8 PPW
Blender / Watt 6.27 PPW 6.61 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
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Apple M2 Pro
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📘 2025-04-23 (Roman)Cinebench 2024125 / 795
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Specifications

Full technical specification of Apple M2 Ultra and M2 Pro

General

Vendor Apple Apple
Released May 5, 2023 January 17, 2023
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set ARMv8 ARMv8
Codename Apple M2 Apple M2
Integrated GPU Apple M2 Ultra GPU (76-core) Apple M2 Pro GPU (19-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 3.5 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 8 4
E-Threads 8 4
Base Frequency (E) 2.4 GHz 2.4 GHz
Total
Total Cores 24 12
Total Threads 24 12
Multiplier 35x -
L1 Cache 192K (per core) 192K (per core)
L2 Cache 64MB (shared) 32MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Transistors 134 billions 40 billions
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
TDP (PL1) 80 W 30 W
Socket Apple M-Socket Apple M-Socket
Peak Temperature 100°C 100°C
Laptop processors ranking (24th and 74th place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Apple M2 Ultra GPU (76-core) Apple M2 Pro GPU (19-core)
GPU Base Clock - 450 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1398 MHz 1398 MHz
Shading Units - 2432
TMUs - 152
ROPs - 76
Execution Units - 304
TGP - 35 W
iGPU FLOPS
M2 Ultra
n/a
M2 Pro
6.8 TFLOPS
See: Apple M2 Pro GPU (19-core) benchmarks

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR5-6400 - LPDDR5-6400
Max. Memory Size 192 GB 32 GB
Memory Channels 8 4
Max. Memory Bandwidth 819.2 GB/s 204.8 GB/s
ECC Support No No

Misc

PCI Express Version 4.0 4.0

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Total votes: 21

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Comments

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