Apple announced the next-generation Apple Silicon during a presentation at the WWDC 2022 event. The first chip here is the M2, which will be used in the updated MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro. With this Apple is focusing even more on performance per watt, as they say it.
At the CPU level, both economical and powerful cores have been upgraded. The M2 still contains four of both, but the new chip offers 18 percent more computing power than the M1. This is partly due to more l2 caches on larger cores (12 MB shared cache vs 16 MB).
The M2 is baked with a ‘second generation 5nm process’ and contains 20 billion transistors. That’s about 20 percent more than the M1. The memory has increased to a maximum of 24GB with a bandwidth of 100 gigabits per second.
There are also innovations on the GPU side. The M2 has a maximum of ten graphics cores built in, compared to a maximum of eight cores in the previous generation. Along with the increased memory bandwidth, the new chip offers 25 percent better performance with the same power consumption. However, the M2 looks like it could be extended a bit more as the maximum performance is 35 percent higher than the M1.
At peak performance, the M2 uses only 25% of the power required by the Core i5-1260P.
Moreover neuromotor and Apple’s safe residential area has been renewed. new media engine it can now process video in 8k resolution. ‘6k resolution’ external displays are also supported and there is a separate accelerator for ProRes video.
Source: Hardware Info
