Apple M2 beats the Ryzen 7 6800U in gaming

Apple M2 has been tested against some laptops with hardware of AMD, in order to check what is the performance that the new chip can give us ARM from Apple, which reaches its second generation with improvements in performance and consumption.

Apple M2 outperforms AMD Ryzen 7 6800U iGPU

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The chip SOC M2 has undergone some performance testing from the folks at HardwareUnboxedcomparing it to a wide variety of CPUs from AMD e Intel. Different performance tests were made with different well-known tools such as Cinebench, Handbrake or Blender. There was also time to do some gaming testing, where the iGPU in the Apple M2 seems to be more competent than the iGPU in the Ryzen 7 6800U.

Apple’s new M2 SOC makes use of new performance and efficiency coresoffering up to 18% faster multithreading performance than with the M1.

The Apple M2 chip has 24 GB of LPDDR5 memory as unified memory. This memory is located in the SOC package itself in two 12 GB modules, which have a bandwidth of 100 GB/s. Apple has built the chip with some 20 billion transistors and a 5nm process node. The neural engine was one of the most benefited from the new generation of Apple’s ARM chips, with an improvement of more than 40%, having about 16 cores that can do up to 15.8 billion operations per second.

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In total, we are talking about a chip with 10 cores, to offer 35% more performance than the M1 generation, that is what Apple claims.

Test of performance

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In performance tests, the M2 SOC is slower than the Intel Core i7-1260P and Ryzen 7 6800U in Cinebench R23. In single-thread tests the M2 beats the Ryzen 7 6800U, but can’t beat the Alder Lakes.

Handbrake is showing similar results, while in Blender the Apple M2 outperforms Alder Lake, but still loses out to the 6800U. Where Apple’s proposal stands out the most is with Adobe Premiere, where it manages to be faster than some high-end Intel Core.

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It must be taken into account that the SOC M2 has a maximum TDP of 24W, while the Ryzen 7 6800U has a TDP of 37W. The Core i7-1260P has a TDP of 54Wso the Apple chip is competing against processors that consume much more, which is quite a merit.

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As for the games, HardwareUnboxed tried Shadow of The Tomb Raider and the results show that the M2 was able to outperform the Ryzen 7 6800U’s iGPU by 10% at 1200p resolution. However, we know that a MacBook is not the best platform to play, but we are glad to know that Apple has also made quite competent graphics, especially since the Apple chip consumes up to 48% less battery.

The results show great performance per watt for the Apple M2 versus AMD and Intel options in the notebook segment. You can see the full comparison here.

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