Intel Xeon Gold 6234 vs Apple M2 Max. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Xeon Gold 5200/6200 Apple M2
• Family
  Intel Xeon Gold Apple M series
• Generation
  2 2
• Predecessor
  - Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• A-Core
  - 8x Avalanche
• B-Core
  - 4x Blizzard
• Base Frequency
  3.3 GHz -
• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• CPU Cores
  8 12
• CPU Threads
  16 12
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  4 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  3.7 GHz -
• A-Core Frequency
  - 3.5 GHz
• B-Core Frequency
  - 2.8 GHz

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

• Execution units
  - 512
• Generation
  - 2
• GPU Frequency
  - 1400 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU Apple M2 Max (32 Core)
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo
• Max. displays
  - 2
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 32 GB
• Release date
  - Q4/2022
• Shader
  - 4096
• Technology
  - 5 nm

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

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No Conflicting source values: Decode | Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• VP8
  No Decode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple M2 Max and Intel Xeon Gold 6234. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  - 64 GB
• Memory channels
  6 2 (Dual Channel)
• Memory type
  DDR4-2933 LPDDR5-6400
• PCIe lanes
  48 -
• PCIe version
  3.0 -
• Memory Bandwidth
  - 409.6 GB/s
• PCIe
  - 4.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon Gold 6234 and Apple M2 Max Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  - 100 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  130 W 45 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon Gold 6234 and Apple M2 Max, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Cascade Lake M2
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512 Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
• L2-Cache
  - 36 MB
• L3-Cache
  24.75 MB -
• Release date
  Q2/2019 Q2/2022
• Socket
  LGA 3647 -
• Technology
  14 nm 5 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d Apple Virtualization Framework
• Chip design
  - Chiplet
• Operating systems
  - macOS, iPadOS