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Apple M2 (8-GPU) vs AMD Ryzen AI Max 385

Last updated: 2026-06-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M2 (8-GPU)

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen AI Max 385

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 63 %

Apple M2 (8-GPU)

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen AI Max 385

Cinebench 2026 Single-Thread
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

470 pts

8C / 16T · 5.00 GHz

460 pts

Cinebench 2026 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

2,316 pts

8C / 16T · 5.00 GHz

4,099 pts

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

120 pts

8C / 16T · 5.00 GHz

109 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

555 pts

8C / 16T · 5.00 GHz

982 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

2,596

8C / 16T · 5.00 GHz

2,886

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

10,062

8C / 16T · 3.60 GHz

14,432

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M2 (8 Core)

2,840

AMD Radeon 8050S Graphics

22,941

AI performance (NPU)

8C / 8T · 0.66 GHz

15.8 TOPS

8C / 16T · 3.60 GHz

50.0 TOPS

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

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 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 (8-GPU)	AMD Ryzen AI Max 385
Family	Apple M series (38)	AMD Ryzen AI Max (3)
CPU group	Apple M2 (8)	AMD Ryzen AI MAX 300 (7)
Architecture	M2	Strix Halo (Zen 5)
Technology	5 nm	4 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket		FP11
Predecessor	Apple M1
Successor	Apple M3 (8-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	AMD Ryzen AI Max 385
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 3.60 - 5.00 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 (8-GPU)	AMD Ryzen AI Max 385
GPU name	Apple M2 (8 Core)	AMD Radeon 8050S Graphics
GPU frequency	0.45 - 1.40 GHz	0.60 - 2.80 GHz
CUs / Shader	128 / 1024	32 / 2048
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays	2	4
Max. GPU Memory	24 GB	96 GB
Technology	5 nm	4 nm
Release date	Q2/2022	Q2/2025

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	AMD Ryzen AI Max 385
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	AMD Ryzen™ AI
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS	AMD Ryzen™ AI (XDNA 2) @ 50 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU		106 TOPS

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	AMD Ryzen AI Max 385
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)	LPDDR5X-8000 (256.0 GB/s)
Max. Memory	24 GB	128 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe	4.0	4.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth		31.5 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	AMD Ryzen AI Max 385
TDP	20 W	55 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up	25 W	120 W
TDP down	10 W	45 W
T. junction max.	100 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	AMD Ryzen AI Max 385
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
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	Q2/2025
Release price
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 (8-GPU) is 4.6 stars (108 ratings), while AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 has received 1.8 stars (65 ratings).

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Apple M2 (8-GPU)
8C / 8T · 0.66 - 3.50 GHz

★★★★★

AMD Ryzen AI Max 385
8C / 16T · 3.60 - 5.00 GHz

★★★★★