Apple M2 Ultra SoC Isn’t Faster Than AMD & Intel Last Year Desktop CPUs, 50% Slower Than NVIDIA RTX 4080
Apple's M2 Ultra SoC is being benchmarked right and left and we can compare those numbers to AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA chips to see if the new SoC really delivers the claimed performance figures.
The Apple M2 Ultra SoC is the flagship design that the company has on offer. It features a total of 134 Billion transistors, 24 CPU cores running in a 16 (Performance) and 8 (Efficiency) configuration, up to 76 GPU cores, & 192 GB of memory that is unified and accessible across the whole chip at a maximum bandwidth of 800 GB/s. There's also the new Neural Engine which has been upgraded with 32 cores and the company is claiming a 20% speedup on the CPU & 30% speedup on the GPU side.
The performance benchmarks of the Apple M2 Ultra SoC were leaked within Geekbench 6 and the older Geekbench 5. We get a taste of both the CPU and GPU performance since compute results have also been leaked. So let's start with the CPU side, we first have the clock speeds which range from sub-3 GHz up to 3.7 GHz. We obviously can't say for sure which are the Performance and Efficiency cores since the benchmark doesn't separate the cores based on their architecture or states.
The CPU managed to post a single-core score of up to 2809 points in single-core and 21,531 points in the multi-core tests. For comparison, the Intel Core i9-13900KS scores 3083 points while AMD's Ryzen 9 7950X scores 2875 points. In multi-threaded benchmarks, the same chips score 21665 and 19342 points, respectively. So as you can see, the workstation-grade Apple M2 Ultra SoC isn't faster than the mainstream CPU offerings from Intel and AMD.
If you compare the chip to something like an AMD Threadripper and Intel Xeon W chip, then those would absolutely crush the M2 Ultra in the
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