Apple M2 Pro vs AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Apple M series AMD Ryzen Z1
• CPU group
  Apple M2 AMD Ryzen 7040
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  2 6
• Predecessor
  Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-GPU) --

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
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• 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 780M Graphics
• GPU frequency
  1.40 GHz 1.20 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 2.70 GHz
• Execution units
  256 12
• Shader
  2048 768
• Max. GPU Memory
  32 GB 32 GB
• Max. displays
  2 4
• Generation
  2 10
• Direct X
  -- 12
• Technology
  5 nm 4 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2022 Q1/2023

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
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode
• AV1
  No Decode / Encode
• AVC
  Decode Decode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme and Apple M2 Pro. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR5-6400 DDR5-5600LPDDR5X-7500
• Max. Memory
  32 GB 256 GB
• Memory channels
  2 (Dual Channel) 2 (Dual Channel)
• Bandwidth
  204.8 GB/s 89.6 GB/s
• ECC
  No Yes
• PCIe
  4.0 4.0 x 20
• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Apple M2 Pro and AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP up
  -- 30 W
• TDP down
  -- 15 W
• Tjunction max.
  100 °C 100 °C

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

• Technology
  5 nm 4 nm
• Chip design
  Chiplet Monolithic
• Socket
  N/A FP8
• L2-Cache
  36.00 MB 8.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  -- 16.00 MB
• Architecture
  M2 Phoenix (Zen 4)
• Operating systems
  macOS, iPadOS Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
• 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,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512
• Release date
  Q2/2022 Q2/2023
• Documents
  -- Technical data sheet