Apple M2 vs Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-GPU)

This comparison is about the Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-GPU), which was installed for the first time in the third quarter of 2021, and the Apple M2 Processor, which was introduced in the second quarter of 2022.

The Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-GPU) is manufactured with a structure width of 5 nanometers and is based on a chiplet chip design. The Apple M2 is also manufactured using the 5-nanometer process and is also based on a chiplet chip design. The Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-GPU) is built in a hybrid big.LITTLE core architecture and has 8 performance cores of the Firestorm type and 2 efficiency cores of the Icestorm type.

The Firestorm cores have a base clock of 0.60 gigahertz and the maximum turbo clock is 3.20 gigahertz. The base clock frequency of the 2 Icestorm cores is also 0.60, but the maximum turbo clock is significantly lower at 2.06 gigahertz. The Apple M2 also relies on a hybrid big.LITTLE structure. It has 4 Avalanche performance cores and 4 Blizzard efficiency cores.

The base clock of the Avalanche cores is 0.66 gigahertz and the maximum turbo clock is 3.50 gigahertz. The Blizzard cores clock from 0.60 to 2.42 gigahertz. Hyperthreading is not supported by Apple processors. The Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-GPU) is equipped with 14 graphics processor cores. These have a total of 224 execution units and 1792 shaders.

The maximum clock speed of this graphics unit is 1.30 gigahertz and it can use up to 32 gigabytes of system memory. The Apple M2 is equipped with 10 graphics processor cores. These have a total of 160 execution units and 1280 shaders. This graphics unit clocks at up to 1.40 gigahertz and can use a maximum of 24 gigabytes of system memory.

The Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-GPU) can be equipped with up to 32 gigabytes of RAM of the LPDDR5-6400 type, while the Apple M2 supports a maximum of 24 gigabytes of the identical type.