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Processor comparison
Current desktop and laptop silicon side by side — Apple M-series, AMD Zen 5 / Strix Halo, Intel Arrow and Lunar Lake, and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 — on the raw numbers vendors actually publish. For the evidence-judged leaderboard over the same roster (user stories, citations, verdicts), see the Processors arena.
Curated 2026-09-14 · 8 chips · every source URL checked reachable · hover any header or value for what it means and where it came from
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| 1 | Apple M5 Apple · Laptop / tablet SoC · 3rd-gen 3nm | 10 (4P + 6E) | n/a | n/a | n/a | 153 GB/s | n/a | 15.3 | 32 GB | Oct 2025 | spec ↗ |
| 2 | Apple M4 Max Apple · Laptop / desktop SoC · 2nd-gen 3nm | 16 (12P + 4E) | n/a | 38 | n/a | 546 GB/s | n/a | 34.1 | 128 GB | Oct 2024 | spec ↗ |
| 3 | Apple M4 Pro Apple · Laptop / desktop SoC · 2nd-gen 3nm | 14 (10P + 4E) | n/a | 38 | n/a | 273 GB/s | n/a | 19.5 | 64 GB | Oct 2024 | spec ↗ |
| 4 | Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme Qualcomm · Laptop SoC (Windows on Arm) | 18 (12 Prime + 6 Perf) | 5.0 GHz | 85 | n/a | 228 GB/s | n/a | 12.7 | n/a | Announced Sep 2025; PCs 2026 | spec ↗ |
| 5 | AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 AMD · Laptop / mini-PC SoC (Strix Halo) · TSMC 4nm | 16 Zen 5 / 32 threads | 5.1 GHz | 50 | 55 W | 256 GB/sdrv | 0.91 | 16.0 | 128 GB | Jan 2025 (CES) | spec ↗ |
| 6 | AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D AMD · Desktop (AM5) · TSMC 4nm | 16 Zen 5 / 32 threads | 5.7 GHz | n/a | 170 W | 89.6 GB/sdrv | n/a | 5.6 | 256 GB | Mar 12, 2025 | spec ↗ |
| 7 | Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Intel · Desktop (Arrow Lake, LGA1851) · TSMC N3B (compute tile) | 24 (8P + 16E) | 5.7 GHz | 13 | 125 W | 102.4 GB/sdrv | 0.10 | 4.3 | 256 GB | Q4 2024 | spec ↗ |
| 8 | Intel Core Ultra 7 258V Intel · Thin-and-light laptop (Lunar Lake) · TSMC N3B (compute tile) | 8 (4P + 4LPE) | 4.8 GHz | 47 | 17 W | 136.5 GB/sdrv | 2.76 | 17.1 | 32 GB | Q3 2024 | spec ↗ |
Honesty notes: vendor TOPS figures use different precisions and test conditions and are not benchmark results. Cells marked drv are derived from the vendor’s published memory spec (formula in the tooltip), because the vendor doesn’t state a GB/s number. n/a means the vendor doesn’t publish the figure — unpublished, not zero. Prices are omitted: most of these chips ship inside devices and have no standalone list price.