Apple M2 Pro vs AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Apple M series AMD Ryzen
• CPU group
  Apple M2 AMD Ryzen 6000H
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  2 5
• Predecessor
  Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-GPU) AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

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.

• CPU Cores / Threads
  12 / 12 8 / 16
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) normal
• A-Core
  8x Avalanche --
• B-Core
  4x Blizzard --
• Overclocking
  No No

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
  Apple M2 Pro (16 Core) AMD Radeon RX 680M
• GPU frequency
  1.40 GHz 2.40 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  256 12
• Shader
  2048 768
• Max. GPU Memory
  32 GB 8 GB
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Generation
  2 9
• Direct X
  -- 12
• Technology
  5 nm 6 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2022 Q1/2022

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX and Apple M2 Pro. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR5-6400 DDR5-4800LPDDR5-6400
• Max. Memory
  32 GB 64 GB
• Memory channels
  2 (Dual Channel) 2
• ECC
  No No
• PCIe
  4.0 4.0 x 12
• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Apple M2 Pro and AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  45 W 45 W
• TDP up
  -- 54 W
• Tjunction max.
  100 °C 105 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Apple M2 Pro and Apple M2 Pro, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Technology
  5 nm 6 nm
• Socket
  N/A FP7
• L2-Cache
  36.00 MB 4.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  -- 16.00 MB
• Architecture
  M2 Rembrandt (Zen 3+)
• Virtualization
  Apple Virtualization Framework AMD-V, SVM
• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• Release date
  Q2/2022 Q1/2022