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Intel Core Ultra 7 155U vs Apple M2 Max (30-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-05-02

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 90 %

Intel Core Ultra 7 155U

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M2 Max (30-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 63 %

Intel Core Ultra 7 155U

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M2 Max (30-GPU)

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

12C / 14T · 4.80 GHz

99 pts

12C / 12T · 3.50 GHz

121 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

12C / 14T · 4.80 GHz

554 pts

12C / 12T · 3.50 GHz

1,025 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

12C / 14T · 4.80 GHz

1,690 pts

12C / 12T · 3.50 GHz

1,695 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

12C / 14T · 1.70 GHz

9,972 pts

12C / 12T · 3.50 GHz

14,855 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

12C / 14T · 4.80 GHz

2,354

12C / 12T · 3.50 GHz

2,689

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

12C / 14T · 1.70 GHz

9,602

12C / 12T · 3.50 GHz

14,207

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel Iris Xe 4 Core Graphics 64 EUs (Meteor Lake)

1,935

Apple M2 Max (30 Core)

10,650

More benchmarks

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

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 7 155U	Apple M2 Max (30-GPU)
Family	Intel Core Ultra 7 (31)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Intel Core Ultra 100U (7)	Apple M2 (8)
Architecture	Meteor Lake U	M2
Technology	7 nm	5 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket	BGA 2049
Predecessor		Apple M1 Max (24-GPU)
Successor	Intel Core Ultra 7 255U	Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 7 155U	Apple M2 Max (30-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	12 / 14	12 / 12
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x Redwood Cove 1.70 - 4.80 GHz	8x Avalanche 0.66 - 3.50 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	8x Crestmont 1.20 - 3.80 GHz	4x Blizzard 0.60 - 2.42 GHz
Core Cluster 3:	2x Crestmont 0.70 - 2.10 GHz
L2-Cache	12.00 MB	36.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 7 155U	Apple M2 Max (30-GPU)
GPU name	Intel Iris Xe 4 Core Graphics 64 EUs (Meteor Lake)	Apple M2 Max (30 Core)
GPU frequency	0.60 - 1.95 GHz	0.45 - 1.40 GHz
CUs / Shader	64 / 512	480 / 3840
Raytracing	✓	✗
Max. displays	4	5
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	96 GB
Technology	5 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q4/2023	Q1/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 7 155U	Apple M2 Max (30-GPU)
AI hardware	Intel® AI Boost	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	Intel AI Boost @ 1.4 GHz (OpenVINO, WindowsML, DirectML, ONNX RT)	16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 7 155U	Apple M2 Max (30-GPU)
Memory	LPDDR5X-7500 (120.0 GB/s) DDR5-5600 (89.6 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (409.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	96 GB	96 GB
Memory channels	2	4
ECC	No	No
PCIe	4.0 x 20	4.0 x 32
PCIe Bandwidth	39.4 GB/s	63.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 7 155U	Apple M2 Max (30-GPU)
TDP	15 W	45 W
TDP (PL2)	57 W
TDP up	28 W
TDP down	12 W
T. junction max.	110 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 7 155U	Apple M2 Max (30-GPU)
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 11, Linux	macOS, iPadOS
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q4/2023	Q1/2023
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 Intel Core Ultra 7 155U is 2.8 stars (140 ratings), while Apple M2 Max (30-GPU) has received 4.6 stars (57 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core Ultra 7 155U
12C / 14T · 1.70 - 4.80 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M2 Max (30-GPU)
12C / 12T · 0.66 - 3.50 GHz

★★★★★