Apple does not stand still: the M2 chip is here

Burning a revolution by switching to ARM-based desktop chips, Apple announced the highly anticipated second generation M chip at its developer event today. The Apple M2 chip comes with significant improvements over the previous generation.

What does the Apple M2 processor offer?

Apple M2 chipset is designed with TSMC’s second generation 5nm process. Thus, it has become more efficient. Apple has managed to fit 20 billion transistors into this chip. The Apple M1 chip contained 16 billion transistors.

With the improvements captured, 4 performance and 4 efficiency cores can perform 18 percent better in total. The graphics unit with up to 10 cores is 35 percent faster than the previous generation.

16-core artificial intelligence unit can reach a performance value of 15.8 TOPS. While supporting 6K external displays, ProRes decoding and encryption are also among its capabilities. The chip also includes support for up to 24GB of LPDDR5 unified memory. The total bandwidth is 100GB/s and 50 percent more than the M1 chip.

Apple has again put certain Intel processor laptops in the tests. Relative CPU performance per watt is 1.9 times higher than a laptop with a Core i7 1255U processor. Relative graphics performance is 2.3 times higher than a laptop with a Core i7-1260P processor. The Apple M2 processor first took its place in MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops.