Apple Announces More M2 Processor, Successor To M1

June 7, 2022 Off By Naveen Victor

Apple has introduced the M2, its next generation silicon built specifically for the Mac. It uses 2nd generation 5nm tech that enables it to offer an 18% faster CPU, a 35% more powerful GPU, and a 40% faster Neural Engine. The new chip also provides 50% more memory bandwidth than the M1 at 24GB.

Compared to M1, the M2 has 20 billion transistors, which is a 25% increase. This allows for a memory controller that delivers 100GB/s of unified memory bandwidth. Faster cores, paired with larger cache equate to 18% greater multithreaded performance than the M1.

Cupertino is making bold claims as to how well its new chip stacks up against the PC competition. The company says:

Compared with the latest 10-core PC laptop chip, the CPU in M2 provides nearly twice the performance
M2 delivers the peak performance of the PC chip while using just a quarter of the power.
Compared to the latest 12-core PC laptop chip M2 provides nearly 90% of the peak performance of the 12-core chip while using just one-fourth the
power.

But that’s not all because the following are what The M2 is capable of delivering:

Neural Engine can process up to 15.8 trillion operations per second
The media engine supports 8K H.264 and HEVC video.
ProRes video engine enables playback of multiple streams of both 4K and 8K video.
New image signal processor (ISP) delivers better image noise reduction.