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Key specs
Cores
8
Threads
8
TDP
18 W
Socket
Apple M-Socket
Process
5 nm
Benchmarks
Rating
57
Perf.
51
iGPU
68
Energy
76
Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
125
Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
582
TDP
18 W
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
125
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
582
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
2589
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
10,122
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
3883
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
15,651
Blender CPU
109.19
iGPU FLOPS
2.9 TFLOPS
GeekBench v6
File compression
1130 MB/sec
Clang compilation
80.4 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser
235.3 pages/sec
PDF Renderer
266.1 Mpixels/sec
Text processing
257.4 pages/sec
Background blur
42.1 images/sec
Photo processing
107 images/sec
Ray tracing
10.5 Mpixels/sec
PassMark
Integer math
37 GOps/sec
Floating point math
37.5 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers
174M Primes/sec
Random string sorting
23.7M Strings/sec
Data encryption
9.5 GBytes/sec
Data compression
185.8 MBytes/sec
Physics
1667 Frames/sec
Extended instructions
7.8B Matrices/sec
Performance Per Watt
Cinebench 2024 / Watt
32.3 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt
562.3 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt
869.5 PPW
Blender / Watt
6.07 PPW
General
Vendor
Apple
Released
June 6, 2022
Type
Laptop
Instruction Set
ARMv8
Codename
Apple M2
Integrated GPU
Apple M2 GPU
Successor
- Apple M5 (10-Core)
CPU
P-Cores
4
P-Threads
4
Base Frequency (P)
3.5 GHz
E-Cores
4
E-Threads
4
Base Frequency (E)
2.4 GHz
Total Cores
8
Total Threads
8
L1 Cache
192K (per core)
L2 Cache
16MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier
No
Package
Transistors
20 billions
Fabrication Process
5 nm
TDP (PL1)
18 W
Socket
Apple M-Socket
iGPU
Integrated Graphics
Apple M2 GPU
GPU Base Clock
500 MHz
GPU Boost Clock
1398 MHz
Shading Units
1024
TMUs
64
ROPs
32
Execution Units
128
TGP
15 W
Memory Support
Memory Types
- LPDDR5-6400
Max. Memory Size
24 GB
Memory Channels
8
Max. Memory Bandwidth
102.4 GB/s
ECC Support
No
Misc
PCI Express Version
4.0