Apple M2
Benchmarks & Specs

The Apple M2 is the further development of the Apple M1 processor. It was announced by Apple in Q2 2022 and shipped first in Q3 2022. The Apple M2 has been slightly improved compared to the Apple M1, mainly the clock frequencies have been increased, the L2 cache has been enlarged and a faster memory is used.

The Apple M2 relies on an identical chip layout, which again consists of 4 fast performance cores and 4 efficient CPU cores. Apparently, the processor is again manufactured in 5 nm, but the refreshed TSMC N4P process is probably already being used. According to the Taiwan manufacturer, this should be about 11 percent more powerful or 20 percent more efficient.

The clock frequency of the processor is now 3.5 GHz, which is an increase of 300 MHz compared to the Apple M1. The integrated graphics (iGPU) of the Apple M2 will receive a major upgrade. This now has 10 GPU cores and 160 SM processors. The Apple M1 has 8 GPU cores and 128 SM processors. In addition, Apple has increased the clock frequency of the integrated graphics by 100 MHz to 1.4 GHz.

The Apple M2 processor now uses LPDDR5-6400 memory. Above all, the memory bandwidth and thus the iGPU benefit from this. The processor now maxes out at 102 GB per second, while the Apple M1 with LPDDR4X-4266 memory only manages 68 GB per second. This is a decent improvement that is particularly noticeable in graphics-intensive work.

With the Apple M2, the manufacturer from Cupertino has another interesting mobile processor on offer that has high performance and doesnt make it easy for the competitors AMD and Intel. The processor is very efficient and has its own AI interface to speed up image and video processing.

• 5 nm manufacturing for high energy efficiency
• Integrated Apple M2 (10 Core) graphics unit
• Balanced computing power
• Solid benchmark results