Key Differences
Advantages of Apple M2
Advantages of Intel Core Ultra 9 285H
Specifications
Performance
| L3 Cache | - | 24MB (shared) |
| Integrated GPU | Apple M2 GPU | Arc Graphics 140T |
| TGP | 15 W | 35 W |
Display
| Type | Laptop | Laptop |
Other
| File compression | 1130 MB/sec | 1510 MB/sec |
| Clang compilation | 80.4 Klines/sec | 129.7 Klines/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 235.3 pages/sec | 425.7 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 266.1 Mpixels/sec | 522.7 Mpixels/sec |
| Text processing | 257.4 pages/sec | 309.2 pages/sec |
| Background blur | 42.1 images/sec | 73.9 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 107 images/sec | 159.5 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 10.5 Mpixels/sec | 26.8 Mpixels/sec |
| Integer math | 37 GOps/sec | 86.8 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | 37.7 GOps/sec | 110.3 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | 175M Primes/sec | 334M Primes/sec |
| Random string sorting | 23.8M Strings/sec | 40.6M Strings/sec |
| Data encryption | 9.5 GBytes/sec | 26.1 GBytes/sec |
| Data compression | 186.4 MBytes/sec | 333.6 MBytes/sec |
| Physics | 1666 Frames/sec | 2545 Frames/sec |
| Extended instructions | 7.7B Matrices/sec | 26.5B Matrices/sec |
| Cinebench 2024 / Watt | 32.3 PPW | 24.9 PPW |
| Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt | 562.3 PPW | 381.6 PPW |
| Passmark CPU Mark / Watt | 869.5 PPW | 760.1 PPW |
| Blender / Watt | 6.07 PPW | 4.56 PPW |
| Vendor | Apple | Intel |
| Released | June 6, 2022 | January 6, 2025 |
| Instruction Set | ARMv8 | x86-64 |
| Codename | Apple M2 | Arrow Lake |
| Rival Equivalent | - | AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 |
| P-Cores | 4 | 6 |
| P-Threads | 4 | 6 |
| Base Frequency (P) | 3.5 GHz | 2.9 GHz |
| E-Cores | 4 | 10 |
| E-Threads | 4 | 10 |
| Base Frequency (E) | 2.4 GHz | 2.7 GHz |
| Total Cores | 8 | 16 |
| Total Threads | 8 | 16 |
| Multiplier | - | 29x |
| L1 Cache | 192K (per core) | 112K (per core) |
| L2 Cache | 16MB (shared) | 2MB (per core) |
| Unlocked Multiplier | No | No |
| Transistors | 20 billions | - |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 3 nm |
| TDP (PL1) | 18 W | 35-45 W (configurable) |
| Max. Boost TDP (PL2) | - | 115 W |
| Socket | Apple M-Socket | FCBGA-2049 |
| Peak Temperature | - | 110°C |
| Integrated Graphics | Apple M2 GPU | Arc Graphics 140T |
| GPU Base Clock | 500 MHz | 300 MHz |
| GPU Boost Clock | 1398 MHz | 2350 MHz |
| Shading Units | 1024 | 1024 |
| TMUs | 64 | 64 |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 |
| Execution Units | 128 | 8 |
| Memory Types | - LPDDR5-6400 | - LPDDR5-8400 - LPDDR5x-8400 - DDR5-6400 |
| Max. Memory Size | 24 GB | 128 GB |
| Memory Channels | 2 | 2 |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | 102.4 GB/s | - |
| ECC Support | No | No |
| PCI Express Version | 4.0 | 5.0 |
| Model number | - | 285H |
| Turbo Boost Frequency (P) | - | 5.4 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency (E) | - | 4.5 GHz |
| Bus Frequency | - | 100 MHz |
| Official Site | - | Intel Core Ultra 9 285H official page |
| PCI Express Lanes | - | 28 |