Key Differences
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX
Advantages of Apple M2 Pro
Specifications
Performance
| L3 Cache | 64MB (shared) | - |
| Integrated GPU | Radeon 610M | Apple M2 Pro GPU (19-core) |
| TGP | 15 W | 35 W |
Display
| Type | Laptop | Laptop |
Other
| File compression | 1520 MB/sec | 1630 MB/sec |
| Clang compilation | 222.1 Klines/sec | 125.3 Klines/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 329.3 pages/sec | 356.9 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 545.2 Mpixels/sec | 352.9 Mpixels/sec |
| Text processing | 341.3 pages/sec | 266.9 pages/sec |
| Background blur | 70.4 images/sec | 53.8 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 123 images/sec | 126.3 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 53.8 Mpixels/sec | 17 Mpixels/sec |
| Integer math | 211.8 GOps/sec | 57.8 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | 135.7 GOps/sec | 73.3 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | 292M Primes/sec | 356M Primes/sec |
| Random string sorting | 76.7M Strings/sec | 41M Strings/sec |
| Data encryption | 37 GBytes/sec | 15.7 GBytes/sec |
| Data compression | 721.1 MBytes/sec | 335.5 MBytes/sec |
| Physics | 2734 Frames/sec | 3608 Frames/sec |
| Extended instructions | 57B Matrices/sec | 14.5B Matrices/sec |
| Cinebench 2024 / Watt | 27.9 PPW | 26.5 PPW |
| Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt | 259.3 PPW | 483 PPW |
| Passmark CPU Mark / Watt | 744.1 PPW | 890 PPW |
| Blender / Watt | 7.19 PPW | 6.61 PPW |
| Vendor | Amd | Apple |
| Released | January 7, 2025 | January 17, 2023 |
| Instruction Set | x86-64 | ARMv8 |
| Codename | Zen 5 (Fire Range) | Apple M2 |
| Model number | 9955HX | - |
| Rival Equivalent | Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX | - |
| P-Cores | 16 | 8 |
| P-Threads | 32 | 8 |
| Base Frequency (P) | 2.5 GHz | 3.5 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency (P) | 5.4 GHz | - |
| E-Cores | - | 4 |
| E-Threads | - | 4 |
| Base Frequency (E) | - | 2.4 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency (E) | - | - |
| Total Cores | 16 | 12 |
| Total Threads | 32 | 12 |
| Bus Frequency | 100 MHz | - |
| Multiplier | 25x | - |
| L1 Cache | 80K (per core) | 192K (per core) |
| L2 Cache | 1MB (per core) | 32MB (shared) |
| Unlocked Multiplier | Yes | No |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 5 nm |
| TDP (PL1) | 55-75 W (configurable) | 30 W |
| Max. Boost TDP (PL2) | 101 W | - |
| Socket | FL1 | Apple M-Socket |
| Peak Temperature | 100°C | 100°C |
| Integrated Graphics | Radeon 610M | Apple M2 Pro GPU (19-core) |
| GPU Base Clock | 400 MHz | 450 MHz |
| GPU Boost Clock | 2200 MHz | 1398 MHz |
| Shading Units | 128 | 2432 |
| TMUs | 8 | 152 |
| ROPs | 4 | 76 |
| Execution Units | 2 | 304 |
| Memory Types | - DDR5-5600 | - LPDDR5-6400 |
| Max. Memory Size | 96 GB | 32 GB |
| Memory Channels | 2 | 4 |
| ECC Support | Yes | No |
| Official Site | AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX official page | - |
| PCI Express Version | 5.0 | 4.0 |
| PCI Express Lanes | 28 | - |
| Transistors | - | 40 billions |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | - | 204.8 GB/s |