At its WWDC event today, Apple announced the M2 chip set, the successor to the M1, its first ARM-based custom-designed computer chip to be unveiled in November 2020.
The M2 is the heart of the new MacBook Air and the new 13 “MacBook Pro. The new chip is built on a second-generation 5nm process and, compared to the M1, its 8-core CPU offers a 18% better performance. This is because performance cores are faster and combined with a larger cache, while efficiency cores have also been “significantly improved” to achieve even more performance gains. great, “says Apple.
Compared to the Samsung Galaxy Book2 360’s Intel Core i7-1255U, the M2’s CPU offers “almost twice the performance with the same power level” and also offers the maximum performance of the Intel chip while using only a quarter part of the power. , Apple boasts. Compared to MSI Prestige 14Evo’s 12-core Intel Core i7-1260P, the M2 “delivers almost 90% of maximum performance” while using only a quarter of the power.
GPU cores seem to be the same, but slightly more efficient than M1 cores, as the 10-core M2 can deliver 25% better performance than the M1’s 8-core GPU with the same power. With added power consumption, this performance delta increases by up to 35%. Compared to the graphics built into this Samsung Galaxy Book2 360, Apple says that this GPU is 2.3 times faster with the same power level and equals its maximum performance using one-fifth of the power.
The 16-core neural engine is 40% faster than the M1, and can 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 24 GB of LPDDR5 RAM.
The chipset has more than 20 billion transistors (25% more than the M1), supports 6K external displays, as well as ProRes encoding and decoding, 8K H.264, and HEVC video.
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