At its WWDC event today, Apple announced the M2 chipset, the successor to the M1, its first custom designed ARM-based computer chip that was unveiled in November 2020.
The M2 is the heart of the new MacBook Air and the new 13 “MacBook Pro. The new chip is based on a second generation 5nm process and, compared to the M1, its 8-core CPU offers better performance than the This is due to the fact that the performance cores are faster and matched to a larger cache, while the efficiency cores have also been “significantly improved for even greater performance,” Apple says.
Compared to the Intel Core i7-1255U in the Samsung Galaxy Book2 360, the M2’s CPU offers “nearly double the performance at the same level of power” and also offers the maximum performance of the Intel chip using only a quarter of the power, Apple boasts. Compared to the 12-core Intel Core i7-1260P in the MSI Prestige 14Evo, the M2 “delivers nearly 90% of peak performance” using only a quarter of the power.
The GPU cores appear to be the same, but slightly more efficient than the M1, since the 10-core M2 can deliver 25% better performance than the M1’s 8-core GPU at the same power draw. With a little power draw, the performance delta increases by up to 35%. Compared to the integrated graphics in that Samsung Galaxy Book2 360, Apple claims this GPU is 2.3 times faster at the same power level and matches its maximum performance using one-fifth of the power.
The 16-core neural engine is 40% faster than that of the M1, being able to process up to 15.8 trillion operations per second and you also get 50% more memory bandwidth now. 100 GB / s. Speaking of memory, the M2 supports up to 24GB of LPDDR5 RAM.
The chipset has over 20 billion transistors (25% more than the M1), supports 6K external displays, as well as ProRes, 8K H.264 and HEVC video encoding and decoding.
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