June 16 news, according to foreign media macrumors reported that Apple's M2 chip running score data has appeared on the Geekbench test platform, it is mounted on Apple's newly released 13-inch MacBook Pro. The data shows that Apple M2 is nearly 20% ahead of Apple M1 in multi-core performance running score, in line with what Apple gave at the press conference.
(Source: macrumors)
In detail, the operating frequency of Apple M2 reaches 3.49GHz, which is no small improvement compared to the 3.2GHz of the M1 chip. Its single-core performance score of 1919 is about 12% higher than the 1707 points of the M1 MacBook Pro 13. The multi-core performance run scored 8928 points, which is about 20% higher than M1's 7419 points.
There are several other new sets of running scores on Geekbench, showing that M2 scored 1876 points and 8791 points respectively. This set of running scores is slightly lower, and should be installed on the M2 chip on the new MacBook Air 13. Because it does not have an active heat dissipation design such as a fan inside, the performance score will be slightly inferior, but it is also in line with the normal performance range of the M2 chip.
(Source: macrumors)
Apple introduced at the press conference that the M2 chip is based on a new generation of 5nm process, and the number of transistors has increased by 25% to 20 billion. The chip has an 8-core CPU, which is 18% higher than M1 performance; With 10 core GPUs, the performance is 35% better than the M1. Judging from the currently announced running scores, the performance of M2 is in line with Apple's expectations. However, M2 has a feeling of squeezing toothpaste no matter how it looks, and the single core is only about 12% higher, which is slightly unsatisfactory.
However, even if Apple squeezes toothpaste, the M2 is still one of the strongest processors at present. The performance of Apple's M1 has been comparable to the performance of Intel's high-end products, and it is quite ahead in some use cases. M2 has been further enhanced on this basis, and the bandwidth has been increased to 100GB/s, and the improvement of the experience will be more significant, and it is estimated that it is difficult for a processor on the market to compete with it.
(Source: Apple official)
Moreover, the biggest highlight of Apple M2 is not only performance, power consumption is also one of the advantages. Official data shows that at the same power consumption, M2's CPU and GPU performance is more than 2 times faster than that of 10-core PC processors. Under the same performance, the power consumption of M2 will be lower, and the battery life of the notebook will be longer.
For Apple, the running score seems to have lost its meaning, because the only one who can surpass Apple is Apple itself. Even though apples squeeze toothpaste every year, no one can do it.