AMD A10-4600M vs Apple M2. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  AMD A Apple M series
• Generation
  2 2
• CPU group
  AMD A10-4000M Apple M2

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  2.30 GHz 3.50 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 8
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.20 GHz No turbo
• CPU Threads
  4 8
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• A core
  -- 4x Avalanche
• B core
  -- 4x Blizzard

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  AMD Radeon HD 7660G Apple M2 (8 Core)
• GPU frequency
  0.50 GHz 3.50 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.69 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  6 128
• Shader
  384 0
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 16 GB
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Generation
  4 2
• DirectX Version
  11.2
• Technology
  32 nm 5 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2012 Q1/2022

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode
• VP8
  No Decode
• AV1
  No Decode
• AVC
  Decode Decode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple M2 and AMD A10-4600M. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1600 LPDDR5-5500
• Max. Memory
  16 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  4.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A10-4600M and Apple M2 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  35 W 15 W
• TDP up
  -- 20 W
• TDP down
  -- 10 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD A10-4600M and AMD A10-4600M, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V None
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4 Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
• L2-Cache
  -- 16.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB --
• Architecture
  Trinity (Piledriver) M2
• Technology
  32 nm 5 nm
• Socket
  FS1r2 N/A
• Release date
  Q2/2012 Q1/2022