Apple M2 (8-GPU)
Benchmarks & Specs

The Apple M2 processor was released in the second quarter of 2022 and came on the market in 2 variants. Once with 8 GPU cores and then another variant with 10 GPU cores. As our name suggests, this is the variant with 8 GPU cores. This variant was actually only used in one device, namely the 13-inch MacBook Air from 2022. The Apple M2 (8-GPU) is the direct successor to the Apple M1 from 2020.

The Apple M2 (8-GPU) is built in a hybrid big.LITTLE core architecture; in addition to 4 performance cores of the Avalanche type, there are also 4 efficiency cores of the Blizzard type. The Avalanche processor cores clock at 660 megahertz and can increase their clock speed to up to 3.50 gigahertz. The four Blizzard processor cores clock at 600 megahertz and the maximum turbo clock is 2.42 gigahertz. None of the processor cores support hyperthreading technology and there is no option to overclock the processor.

The processor is not able to be equipped with a dedicated graphics card, but it is equipped with an internal graphics unit. This graphics unit consists of 128 execution units with 1024 shaders and can operate a maximum of 2 screens with it. The base clock of the iGPU is 450 megahertz and in turbo mode the clock can be increased to up to 1.40 gigahertz. This means that the graphics unit achieves an FP32 computing power of a very strong 2840 GigaFLOPS, with single precision.

The Apple M2 (8-GPU) is equipped with 2 memory channels and can be equipped with up to 24 gigabytes of LPDDR5-6400 RAM. Here, however, you have to decide when you buy the device how much RAM you want to have, because it is not possible to upgrade it later.

Both the processor and the internal graphics unit are manufactured with a structure width of 5 nanometers.

• Efficient 5 nm manufacturing
• Integrated 8-Core GPU
• Strong CPU performance (Single- and Multi-Core)
• Fast memory bandwidth