Ever since Apple equipped its Macs with its own Apple silicon processors, the computers have been running really fast. Even the M1 caused amazement in the industry. Apple now presented the successor at WWDC 2020. That means, logically, M2.
Fixed 5 nanometer processor
Like its predecessor, the processor was manufactured using the 5-nanometer process. Competitor Qualcomm is already further here and builds the Snapdgraon 8+ Gen 1 in the 4-nanometer process. This is also why Apple speaks of the “second generation” of the manufacturing technology. The M2 is said to house over 20 billion transistors. That’s 25 percent more than the M1. The more transistors give the processor a boost in performance. He should work up to 18 percent faster than the M1. That sounds impressive.
In detail, the M2 consists of eight computing cores and eight or ten graphics cores. When it comes to heavy tasks, it scores with particularly low energy consumption. Compared to Windows notebooks, the M2 delivers twice the performance with comparable energy consumption. According to the information, the chip only needs a quarter of the energy under peak load. To collect the data, Apple used prototypes of the MacBook Pro with a 13-inch screen, the M2 with a ten-core GPU and 16 gigabytes of RAM to compete against a Samsung Galaxy Book2 360 with a Core i7-1255U and also 16 gigabytes of RAM. In the fine print, the company warns: “The performance tests are conducted with specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of the MacBook Pro.”
The first devices to benefit from the M2 processor are the MacBook Air 2022 and the MacBook Pro 2022.
