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Apple M2 Pro (12-CPU 19-GPU) vs AMD EPYC 7281

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 Pro (12-CPU 19-GPU)

Rank 2 - 31 %

AMD EPYC 7281

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M2 Pro (12-CPU 19-GPU)

Rank 2 - 37 %

AMD EPYC 7281

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

12C / 12T · 3.50 GHz

2,689

16C / 32T · 2.70 GHz

713

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

12C / 12T · 3.50 GHz

14,207

16C / 32T · 2.70 GHz

2,136

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

12C / 12T · 3.50 GHz

1,874

16C / 32T · 2.70 GHz

664

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

12C / 12T · 3.50 GHz

15,506

16C / 32T · 2.70 GHz

2,098

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

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

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple M2 Pro (12-CPU 19-GPU)	AMD EPYC 7281
Family	Apple M series (38)	AMD EPYC (147)
CPU group	Apple M2 (8)	AMD EPYC 7001 (12)
Architecture	M2	Naples (Zen)
Technology	5 nm	14 nm
Segment	Notebook	Server
Socket		SP3
Predecessor	Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)
Successor	Apple M3 Pro (12-CPU 18-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M2 Pro (12-CPU 19-GPU)	AMD EPYC 7281
CPU Cores / Threads	12 / 12	16 / 32
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	8x Avalanche 0.66 - 3.50 GHz	16x 2.20 - 2.70 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Blizzard 0.60 - 2.42 GHz
L2-Cache	36.00 MB
L3-Cache		32.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M2 Pro (12-CPU 19-GPU)	AMD EPYC 7281
GPU name	Apple M2 Pro (19 Core)	no iGPU
GPU frequency	0.45 - 1.40 GHz
CUs / Shader	304 / 2432	/
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB
Technology	5 nm
Release date	Q1/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M2 Pro (12-CPU 19-GPU)	AMD EPYC 7281
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M2 Pro (12-CPU 19-GPU)	AMD EPYC 7281
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)	DDR4-2666 (170.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	32 GB
Memory channels	2	8
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe	4.0	3.0 x 128
PCIe Bandwidth		126.1 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M2 Pro (12-CPU 19-GPU)	AMD EPYC 7281
TDP	40 W	170 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M2 Pro (12-CPU 19-GPU)	AMD EPYC 7281
Chip design	Monolithic	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	macOS, iPadOS	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
Release date	Q1/2023	Q3/2017
Release price		625 $
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 Pro (12-CPU 19-GPU) is 4.6 stars (127 ratings), while AMD EPYC 7281 has received 5.0 stars (1 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M2 Pro (12-CPU 19-GPU)
12C / 12T · 0.66 - 3.50 GHz

★★★★★

AMD EPYC 7281
16C / 32T · 2.20 - 2.70 GHz

★★★★★