Apple M2 Max vs AMD Ryzen 7 4700U. 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 4000U
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  2 3
• Predecessor
  Apple M1 Max (32-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.

• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) normal
• 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 Max (32 Core) AMD Radeon 7 Graphics (Renoir)
• GPU frequency
  1.40 GHz 1.60 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  512 7
• Shader
  4096 448
• Max. GPU Memory
  32 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Generation
  2 9
• Technology
  5 nm 7 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2022 Q1/2020

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 7 4700U and Apple M2 Max. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR5-6400 DDR4-3200
• Max. Memory
  64 GB 64 GB
• Memory channels
  2 (Dual Channel) 2
• ECC
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Apple M2 Max and AMD Ryzen 7 4700U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  45 W 15 W
• TDP up
  -- 35 W
• TDP down
  -- 10 W
• Tjunction max.
  100 °C 105 °C

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

• Technology
  5 nm 7 nm
• Socket
  N/A FP6
• L2-Cache
  36.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  -- 8.00 MB
• Architecture
  M2 Renoir (Zen 2)
• 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 Q1/2020