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Apple M2 is a series of ARM-based system on a chip (SoC) designed by Apple Inc. as a central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) for its Mac desktops and notebooks, the iPad Pro tablet, and the Vision Pro mixed reality headset. It is the second generation of ARM architecture intended for Apple's Mac computers after switching from Intel Core to Apple silicon, succeeding the M1. Apple announced the M2 on June 6, 2022, at Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), along with models of the MacBook Air and the 13-inch MacBook Pro using the M2. The M2 is made with TSMC's "Enhanced 5-nanometer technology" N5P process and contains 20 billion transistors, a 25% increase from the M1. Apple claims CPU improvements up to 18% and GPU improvements up to 35% compared to the M1.
The M2 was followed by the professional-focused M2 Pro and M2 Max chips in January 2023. The M2 Max is a higher-powered version of the M2 Pro, with more GPU cores and memory bandwidth, and a larger die size. Apple introduced the M2 Ultra in June 2023, containing two M2 Max units. Its successor, Apple M3, was announced on October 30, 2023.
“The processor Apple M2 is developed on the 4 nm technology node and architecture M2. Its base clock speed is 3.50 GHz, and maximum clock speed in turbo boost - No turbo. Apple M2 contains 8 processing cores. To make a right choice for computer upgrading, please get familiar with the detailed technical specifications and benchmark results. Check socket compatibility before choosing.
- CPU Cores and Base Frequency
- Frequency 3.50 GHz
- Cores 8
- Turbo (1 Core) No turbo
- CPU Threads 8
- Turbo (All Cores) No turbo
- Hyperthreading ? No
- Overclocking ? No
- Core architecture hybrid (big.LITTLE)
- GPU name Apple M2 (8 Core)
- GPU frequency 3.50 GHz
- GPU (Turbo) No turbo
- Generation
- DirectX Version
- Execution units 128
- Shader 0
- Max. Memory
- Max. displays 3
- Technology 4 nm
- Release date Q1/2022
- Hardware codec support
- H264 Decode / Encode
- H265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode / Encode
- H265 / HEVC (10 bit) Decode / Encode
- VP8 Decode
- VP9 Decode / Encode
- AV1 Decode
- AV1 Decode
- AVC Decode
- JPEG Decode / Encode
- Memory & PCIe Memory & PCIe
Memory type
- LPDDR5-5500
- Max. Memory
- Memory channels 2
- ECC No
- PCIe version 4.0
- TDP (PL1) 15 W
- TDP (PL2)
- TDP up 20 W
- TDP down 10 W
- Tjunction max –
- Technical details
- Architecture M2
- L2-Cache 16.00 MB
- L3-Cache –
- Technology 4 nm
- Virtualization None
- Release date Q1/2022
- Socket N/A
- iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS) The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
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