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AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X vs Apple A18 Pro

Last updated: 2026-06-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 37 %

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A18 Pro

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X

Rank 2 - 96 %

Apple A18 Pro

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

16C / 32T · 4.40 GHz

1,255

6C / 6T · 4.04 GHz

3,409

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

16C / 32T · 3.50 GHz

8,814

6C / 6T · 4.04 GHz

8,492

More benchmarks

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Monero Hashrate
94 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X	Apple A18 Pro
Family	AMD Ryzen Threadripper (16)	Apple A series (27)
CPU group	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2000 (4)	Apple A18 (2)
Architecture	Colfax (Zen+)	Donan
Technology	12 nm	3 nm
Segment	Desktop	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket	TR4 (SP3r2)
Predecessor	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X	Apple A17 Pro
Successor		Apple A19 Pro

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X	Apple A18 Pro
CPU Cores / Threads	16 / 32	6 / 6
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	16x 3.50 - 4.40 GHz	2x Donan P-Core 0.70 - 4.04 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		4x Donan E-Core 0.74 - 2.30 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB	20.00 MB
L3-Cache	32.00 MB	24.00 MB
Overclocking	✓	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X	Apple A18 Pro
GPU name	no iGPU	Apple A18 Pro (6 GPU Cores)
GPU frequency		0.39 - 1.68 GHz
CUs / Shader	/	24 / 768
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays		1
Max. GPU Memory		8 GB
Technology		3 nm
Release date		Q3/2024

NPU AI performance

Wischen	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X	Apple A18 Pro
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 38 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X	Apple A18 Pro
Memory	DDR4-2933 (93.8 GB/s)	LPDDR5X-7500 (60.0 GB/s)
Max. Memory		8 GB
Memory channels	4	1
ECC	Yes	No
PCIe	3.0 x 64
PCIe Bandwidth	63.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X	Apple A18 Pro
TDP	180 W	12 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X	Apple A18 Pro
Chip design	Chiplet	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓	✗
Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	iOS
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv9-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
Release date	Q3/2018	Q3/2024
Release price	899 $
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X is 4.7 stars (7 ratings), while Apple A18 Pro has received 4.1 stars (521 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X
16C / 32T · 3.50 - 4.40 GHz

★★★★★

Apple A18 Pro
6C / 6T · 0.70 - 4.04 GHz

★★★★★