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Apple M2 vs AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

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 - 80 %

Apple M2

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 46 %

Apple M2

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Cinebench 2026 Single-Thread
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

470 pts

8C / 16T · 5.50 GHz

536 pts

Cinebench 2026 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

2,316 pts

8C / 16T · 5.50 GHz

5,262 pts

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

120 pts

8C / 16T · 5.50 GHz

134 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

555 pts

8C / 16T · 5.50 GHz

1,255 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

1,592 pts

8C / 16T · 5.50 GHz

2,206 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

8,558 pts

8C / 16T · 4.70 GHz

23,127 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

2,596

8C / 16T · 5.50 GHz

3,362

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

10,062

8C / 16T · 4.70 GHz

16,135

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M2 (10 Core)

3,550

AMD Radeon Graphics (Raphael)

563

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

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

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple M2	AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
Family	Apple M series (38)	AMD Ryzen 7 (79)
CPU group	Apple M2 (8)	AMD Ryzen 9000 (17)
Architecture	M2	Granite Ridge (Zen 5)
Technology	5 nm	4 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket		AM5 (LGA 1718)
Predecessor	Apple M1	AMD Ryzen 7 7700X
Successor	Apple M3

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M2	AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	8 / 16
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	4x Avalanche 0.66 - 3.50 GHz	8x Zen 5 3.80 - 5.50 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Blizzard 0.60 - 2.42 GHz
L2-Cache	20.00 MB	8.00 MB
L3-Cache		32.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✓

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M2	AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
GPU name	Apple M2 (10 Core)	AMD Radeon Graphics (Raphael)
GPU frequency	0.45 - 1.40 GHz	0.40 - 2.20 GHz
CUs / Shader	160 / 1280	2 / 128
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	3
Max. GPU Memory	24 GB	8 GB
Technology	5 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q2/2022	Q3/2022

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M2	AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M2	AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)	DDR5-5600 (89.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	24 GB	256 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe	4.0	5.0 x 24
PCIe Bandwidth		94.5 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M2	AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
TDP	20 W	65 W
TDP (PL2)		88 W
TDP up	30 W	105 W
TDP down	10 W
T. junction max.	100 °C	95 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M2	AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
Chip design	Monolithic	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	macOS, iPadOS	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512
Release date	Q2/2022	Q3/2024
Release price		359 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple M2 is 4.4 stars (743 ratings), while AMD Ryzen 7 9700X has received 4.3 stars (411 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M2
8C / 8T · 0.66 - 3.50 GHz

★★★★★

AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
8C / 16T · 3.80 - 5.50 GHz

★★★★★