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Apple M2 Ultra

Apple M2 Ultra

The Apple M2 Ultra is a system on a chip (SoC) from Apple that connects two M2 Max chips, providing 24 CPU cores: 16 performance cores and 8 efficiency cores. The GPU can be configured with 60 or 76 cores.

The M2 Ultra can access up to 192 GB of unified memory with a massive bandwidth of 800 GB/s. This also makes it ideally suited for local AI applications such as large LLMs.

In addition, the M2 Ultra features a 32-core Neural Engine that performs 31.6 trillion operations per second.

The chip is still manufactured by TSMC using a 5 nm process (second generation, according to Apple).

SeriesApple M2

Series: M2

Apple M2 Ultra « 2.4 - 3.5 GHz cores96 MB L3
Apple M2 Max compare2.42 - 3.7 GHz12 / 12 cores48 MB L3
Apple M2 Pro compare2.42 - 3.5 GHz12 / 12 cores24 MB L3
Apple M2 Pro 10-Core compare2.42 - 3.7 GHz10 / 10 cores24 MB L3
Apple M2 compare2.42 - 3.48 GHz8 / 8 cores8 MB L3
Clock Rate2400 - 3500 MHz
Level 3 Cache96 MB
Transistor Count134000 Million
Manufacturing Technology5 nm
FeaturesARMv8 Instruction Set
64 Bit64 Bit support
ArchitectureARM
Announcement Date06/05/2023
Product Link (external)www.apple.com

Benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 - Cinebench 2026 CPU Single Thread
440 Points (54%)
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Cinebench 2026 - Cinebench 2026 CPU Multi
7500 Points (74%)
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Cinebench 2024 - Cinebench 2024 CPU Single Core
130 Points (16%)
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Cinebench 2024 - Cinebench 2024 CPU Multi Core
1920 Points (36%)
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Cinebench R23 - Cinebench R23 Multi Core
28800 Points (27%)
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Cinebench R23 - Cinebench R23 Single Core
1750 Points (65%)
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Geekbench 7.0 - Geekbench 7.0 Single-Core
2475 Points (60%)
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Geekbench 7.0 - Geekbench 7.0 Multi-Core
28741 Points (0%)
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Geekbench 6.7 - Geekbench 6.7.1 Single-Core
2741 points (58%)
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Geekbench 6.7 - Geekbench 6.7.1 Multi-Core
22660 points (75%)
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    Apple 2026 MacBook Air 13-inch Laptop with M5 chip: Built for AI, 13.6-inch Liquid Retina Display, 16GB Unified Memory, 512GB SSD, 12MP Center Stage Camera, Touch ID, Wi-Fi 7; Midnight
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    2023 Apple MacBook Pro with M2 Max Chip (16.2-inch, 64GB, 1TB SSD Storage) - Space Gray (Renewed)
  • $679.00
    Apple 2022 MacBook Air with Apple M2 Chip, 13-inch, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD Storage, Midnight (Renewed)
  • $799.99
    Apple 2022 MacBook Air with Apple M2 Chip, 13-inch, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD Storage - Starlight (Renewed)
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Other CPUs of the series M2

» Apple M2 Ultra
   2.4 GHz - 3.5 GHz
» Apple M2 Max
   12x 2.42 GHz - 3.7 GHz
» Apple M2 Pro
   12x 2.42 GHz - 3.5 GHz
» Apple M2 Pro 10-Core
   10x 2.42 GHz - 3.7 GHz
» Apple M2
   8x 2.42 GHz - 3.48 GHz

Surrounding CPUs

+ Intel Core i9-13900HX
   24x 1.6 GHz - 5.4 GHz
+ Intel Core i9-13950HX
   24x 1.6 GHz - 5.5 GHz
+ Intel Core i7-13850HX
   20x 1.5 GHz - 5.3 GHz
+ AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 485
   8x 3.6 GHz - 5 GHz
+ AMD Ryzen AI Max 385
   8x 3.6 GHz - 5 GHz
» Apple M2 Ultra
   2.4 GHz - 3.5 GHz
- AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX
   16x 2.4 GHz - 5.3 GHz
- Nvidia RTX Spark N1X 18-Core
   18x 1.5 GHz - 3.9 GHz
- Apple M3 Max 14-Core
   14x 2.75 GHz - 4.06 GHz
- Apple M5 9-Core
   9x 3.05 GHz - 4.61 GHz
- Intel Core i7-14700HX
   20x 3.9 GHz - 5.5 GHz
Klaus Hinum (Update: 2026-10-20)