Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) Benchmark, Test and specs

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The Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) has 10 cores with 10 threads and is based on the 2. gen of the Apple M series series. The processor was released in Q1/2023.
Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)

CPU lineage

The segment in which we have classified the Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU). Here you can see if it is a desktop processor or a mobile processor or which processor may be the successor of the Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU).

Name: Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)
Family: Apple M series
CPU group: Apple M2
Segment: Mobile
Generation: 2
Predecessor: Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-GPU)
Successor: --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

In addition to the number of CPU cores and threads, you can see here whether the Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) can be overclocked. You will also find the clock frequencies of the processor (single-core and multi-core) here. The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor.

CPU Cores / Threads: 10 / 10
Core architecture: hybrid (big.LITTLE)
A-Core: 6x Avalanche
B-Core: 4x Blizzard
Hyperthreading / SMT: No
Overclocking: No
A-Core Frequency: 3.50 GHz
B-Core Frequency: 2.80 GHz

Internal Graphics

The Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die. A processor with integrated graphics is also called APU (Accelerated Processing Unit).

GPU name: Apple M2 Pro (16 Core)
GPU frequency: 1.40 GHz
GPU (Turbo): No turbo
Execution units: 256
Shader: 2048
Max. GPU Memory: 32 GB
Max. displays: 2
Generation: 2
Direct X: --
Technology: 5 nm
Release date: Q1/2023

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

h265 / HEVC (8 bit): Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit): Decode / Encode
h264: Decode / Encode
VP8: Decode
VP9: Decode / Encode
AV1: No
AVC: Decode
VC-1: Decode
JPEG: Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the processor. The memory bandwidth depends on several factors and is given in gigabytes per second.

Memory type: LPDDR5-6400
Max. Memory: 32 GB
Memory channels: 2 (Dual Channel)
Bandwidth: 204.8 GB/s
ECC: No
PCIe: 4.0
AES-NI: Yes

Thermal Management

The Thermal Design Power (TDP for short) specifies the necessary cooling solution to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually only gives a rough idea of the real consumption of a CPU.

TDP (PL1 / PBP): 45 W
TDP (PL2): --
TDP up: --
TDP down: --
Tjunction max.: 100 °C

Technical details

Here you will find information on the size of the level 2 and level 3 cache of the Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) as well as a list of the processors ISA extensions. We have documented the architecture and the manufacturing technology for you as well as the release date.

Technology: 5 nm
Chip design: Chiplet
Socket: N/A
L2-Cache: 28.00 MB
L3-Cache: --
Architecture: M2
Operating systems: macOS, iPadOS
Virtualization: Apple Virtualization Framework
Instruction set (ISA): ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions: Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date: Q1/2023
Release price: --
Part Number: --
Documents: Technical data sheet

Benchmark results

Verified Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.


Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.

Intel Core i3-13100 Intel Core i3-13100
4C 8T @ 4.50 GHz
1751
Intel Core i3-13100F Intel Core i3-13100F
4C 8T @ 4.50 GHz
1751
Intel Core i5-12490F Intel Core i5-12490F
6C 12T @ 4.60 GHz
1729
Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.50 GHz
1695
Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU) Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
24C 24T @ 3.50 GHzNot verified
1695
Apple M2 Ultra (60-GPU) Apple M2 Ultra (60-GPU)
24C 24T @ 3.50 GHzNot verified
1695
Apple M2 Max (30-GPU) Apple M2 Max (30-GPU)
12C 12T @ 3.50 GHz
1695
Show all Cinebench R23 (Single-Core) results



Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.

Intel Core i9-9900 Intel Core i9-9900
8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz
12205
Intel Core i7-11800H Intel Core i7-11800H
8C 16T @ 3.40 GHz
12180
AMD Ryzen 7 5800H AMD Ryzen 7 5800H
8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz
12179
Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.50 GHz
12125
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U
8C 16T @ 3.50 GHz
11530
Intel Xeon W-2150B Intel Xeon W-2150B
10C 20T @ 3.70 GHz
11463
Intel Core i7-6900K Intel Core i7-6900K
8C 16T @ 3.20 GHz
11326
Show all Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core) results



Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.

AMD Ryzen 7 7700 AMD Ryzen 7 7700
8C 16T @ 5.30 GHz
2769
Intel Core i9-13950HX Intel Core i9-13950HX
24C 32T @ 5.50 GHz
2745
Intel Core i9-13900HX Intel Core i9-13900HX
24C 32T @ 5.40 GHz
2712
Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.50 GHz
2689
Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU) Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
24C 24T @ 3.50 GHzNot verified
2689
Apple M2 Ultra (60-GPU) Apple M2 Ultra (60-GPU)
24C 24T @ 3.50 GHzNot verified
2689
Apple M2 Max (30-GPU) Apple M2 Max (30-GPU)
12C 12T @ 3.50 GHz
2689
Show all Geekbench 6 (Single-Core) results



Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.

Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-GPU) Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.20 GHz
12407
Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.20 GHz
12407
Intel Core i7-12800H Intel Core i7-12800H
14C 20T @ 3.60 GHz
12167
Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.50 GHz
12084
Intel Core i5-12600KF Intel Core i5-12600KF
10C 16T @ 4.50 GHz
11991
Intel Core i5-12600K Intel Core i5-12600K
10C 16T @ 4.50 GHz
11991
AMD Ryzen 5 7600 AMD Ryzen 5 7600
6C 12T @ 4.50 GHz
11967
Show all Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core) results



Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.

Intel Core i9-11900K Intel Core i9-11900K
8C 16T @ 5.30 GHz
1878
Intel Core i9-11900KB Intel Core i9-11900KB
8C 16T @ 5.30 GHz
1878
Intel Core i9-11900KF Intel Core i9-11900KF
8C 16T @ 5.30 GHz
1878
Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.50 GHz
1874
Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU) Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
24C 24T @ 3.50 GHzNot verified
1874
Apple M2 Ultra (60-GPU) Apple M2 Ultra (60-GPU)
24C 24T @ 3.50 GHzNot verified
1874
Apple M2 Max (30-GPU) Apple M2 Max (30-GPU)
12C 12T @ 3.50 GHz
1874
Show all Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core) results



Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.

Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.20 GHz
12574
Intel Core i7-12800H Intel Core i7-12800H
14C 20T @ 3.60 GHz
12465
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
12C 24T @ 4.00 GHz
12454
Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.50 GHz
12224
Intel Core i7-12700H Intel Core i7-12700H
14C 20T @ 3.80 GHz
12103
Intel Xeon W-3235 Intel Xeon W-3235
12C 24T @ 4.00 GHz
11996
Intel Core i5-12600KF Intel Core i5-12600KF
10C 16T @ 4.50 GHz
11912
Show all Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core) results



iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.

Sony Playstation 5 Sony Playstation 5
AMD Custom Radeon Graphics (Playstation 5) @ 2.23 GHz
10300
Apple M1 Max (24-GPU) Apple M1 Max (24-GPU)
Apple M1 Max (24 Core) @ 1.30 GHz
7830
Apple M2 Pro (12-CPU 19-GPU) Apple M2 Pro (12-CPU 19-GPU)
Apple M2 Pro (19 Core) @ 1.40 GHz
6745
Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)
Apple M2 Pro (16 Core) @ 1.40 GHz
5680
Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)
Apple M1 Pro (16 Core) @ 1.30 GHz
5300
AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS
AMD Radeon 780M Graphics @ 2.80 GHz
5040
AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS
AMD Radeon 780M Graphics @ 2.70 GHz
4860
Show all iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS) results



Benchmarks


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