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Apple M2 vs Apple M1 (7-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-06-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M2

Rank 2 - 93 %

Apple M1 (7-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M2

Rank 2 - 90 %

Apple M1 (7-GPU)

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

120 pts

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

112 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

555 pts

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

509 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

1,592 pts

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,503 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

8,558 pts

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,759 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

2,596

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,369

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

10,062

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

8,576

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

1,874

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,742

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

8,853

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,650

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M2 (10 Core)

3,550

Apple M1 (7 Core)

2,290

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

277.0 s

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

314.0 s

AI performance (NPU)

8C / 8T · 0.66 GHz

15.8 TOPS

8C / 8T · 0.60 GHz

11.0 TOPS

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple M2	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
Family	Apple M series (38)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Apple M2 (8)	Apple M1 (9)
Architecture	M2	M1
Technology	5 nm	5 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket
Predecessor	Apple M1
Successor	Apple M3

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M2	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x Avalanche 0.66 - 3.50 GHz	4x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Blizzard 0.60 - 2.42 GHz	4x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz
L2-Cache	20.00 MB	16.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M2	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
GPU name	Apple M2 (10 Core)	Apple M1 (7 Core)
GPU frequency	0.45 - 1.40 GHz	0.39 - 1.30 GHz
CUs / Shader	160 / 1280	112 / 896
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	2
Max. GPU Memory	24 GB	8 GB
Technology	5 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q2/2022	Q4/2020

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M2	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS	16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M2	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	24 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	4.0	4.0
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M2	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
TDP	20 W	18 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up	30 W	25 W
TDP down	10 W	10 W
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M2	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	macOS, iPadOS	macOS
Instruction set	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q2/2022	Q4/2020
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple M2 is 4.4 stars (742 ratings), while Apple M1 (7-GPU) has received 4.7 stars (70 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M2
8C / 8T · 0.66 - 3.50 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M1 (7-GPU)
8C / 8T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★