Apple introduced the M2 chipset today at its WWDC event, which is the successor to the M1, the company's first specially built ARM-based computer processor, which was debuted in November 2020.
The M2 is the brains behind the new MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro. The new device is made on a second-generation 5nm technology, and its 8-core CPU outperforms the M1 by 18%. The performance cores have been "substantially strengthened for even greater performance increases," according to Apple, while the efficiency cores have been "significantly enhanced for even greater performance gains."
Apple claims that the CPU in the M2 gives "almost double the performance at the same power level" as the Intel Core i7-1255U in the Samsung Galaxy Book2 360, and also delivers the peak performance of the Intel chip while using a fifth of the power. When compared to the MSI Prestige 14Evo's 12-core Intel Core i7-1260P, the M2 "provides approximately 90% of peak performance" while utilising one-fourth the power.
The GPU cores appear to be the same as the M1's, but significantly more efficient, since the M2's 10 cores can give 25% greater performance at the same power consumption than the M1's 8-core GPU. With a little more power consumption, the performance gap widens to 35%.
The 16-core neural engine is 40% quicker than the M1's, processing up to 15.8 trillion operations per second, and you receive 50% greater memory bandwidth, currently 100GB/s. When it comes to memory, the M2 can take up to 24GB of LPDDR5 RAM.
The processor features over 20 billion transistors (25 percent more than the M1), enables 6K external displays, ProRes encode and decode, 8K H.264, and HEVC video, and supports ProRes encode and decode.
