Apple M2 Ultra: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
M2 Ultra provides good benchmark performance at 29.66% of a leader's which is a 96-core Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9995WX.
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Summary
Apple started M2 Ultra sales 5 June 2023. This is desktop processor primarily aimed at home systems.
Primary details
M2 Ultra processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 229 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Desktop processor | |
| Series | Apple M2 | |
| Designer | Apple | |
| Release date | 5 June 2023 (3 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
| Base clock speed | 2.4 GHz | of 4.7 GHz (FX-9590) |
| Boost clock speed | 3.5 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L3 cache | 96 MB | of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X) |
| Chip lithography | 5 nm | of 1.8 nm (Core Ultra 5 332) |
| Number of transistors | 134000 Million | of 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X) |
| 64 bit support | + |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of M2 Ultra. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating.
Passmark
Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance. Other than that, Passmark measures multi-core performance.
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