Apple unveiled its new M2 chip today at the company's world wide Developers Conference (WWDC). After M1, M1 pro, M1 Max and M1 ultra chips, apple is now ready to switch to a more powerful M2 chip. Like the previous M1 ultra, M2 uses Apple's optimized arm architecture and is manufactured with a 5-nanometer process. It has 20billion transistors - 25% more than the original M1.
Apple uses a new performance and efficiency core on the M2. It also supports 100gbps of memory bandwidth and 24GB of unified memory - 50% more than the M1 bandwidth.
Apple promises that the performance of M2 will be 18% higher than that of the original M1 chip, and claims that M2 will be 1.9 times faster than the "latest 10 core PC Notebook chip". Apple provides four high-performance cores and four efficient cores on m2. The high-performance cores share 16MB cache and the efficient cores share 4MB cache.
Apple's M2 also has a next-generation secure enclave and neural engine, as well as an updated media engine that supports decoding 8K H.264 and hevc video. In reality, this means that the system running the M2 chip will be able to play multiple 4K and 8K video streams at the same time.
The first MAC with M2 chip is one of Apple's most popular notebook computers, macbook Air 2022.
The performance of M2 is 18% higher than that of M1, which is 1.9 times that of the latest 10 core PC Notebook chip. At the same power level, the GPU performance of M2 is 25% more than that of M1, and 35% more at maximum power.
