Apple M2 specifications and performance
Apple M2 is a 8 cores and 8 threads CPU processor produced by Apple. Apple M2 was released on 2022-06-06, the fabrication process is 5nm (nanometer), the CPU codename is Apple M2, the instruction set architecture is ARMv8, and the CPU's integrated graphics (iGPU) is Apple M2 GPU.
| Vendor / Supplier | Apple |
|---|---|
| Short name | apple m2 |
| Release date | 2022-06-06 |
| CPU code name | Apple M2 |
| Fabrication process | 5nm (nanometer) |
| Instruction set architecture | ARMv8 |
| Market | Laptop |
| Integrated Graphics (iGPU) | Apple M2 GPU |
| Total number of cores | 8 cores |
|---|---|
| Total number of threads | 8 threads |
| Number of performance cores | 4 cores |
| Number of performance core threads | 4 threads |
| Performance core base frequency / main frequency | 3.5GHz |
| Performance core maximum turbo frequency | |
| Number of energy efficiency cores | 4 cores |
| Number of energy-efficient core threads | 4 threads |
| Energy efficiency core basic frequency / main frequency | 2.4GHz |
| Energy efficiency core maximum turbo frequency |
| Bus frequency | |
|---|---|
| L1 Cache | 192 KB |
| L2 Cache | 16 MB |
| L3 Cache | |
| Unlock multiplier | No |
| Maximum supported memory | 24GB |
|---|---|
| Memory frequency support |
|
| Maximum number of memory channels | 2 |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 102.4GB/s |
| ECC support | No |
| CPU Socket | Apple M-Socket |
|---|---|
| Default thermal design power / TDP PL1 | 20W |
| Maximum Turbo Power Consumption / TDP PL2 | |
| Maximum temperature | |
| PCIe interface | PCIe 4.0 |
| PCIe lane count |
| Integrated Graphics (iGPU) | Apple M2 GPU |
|---|---|
| Base frequency | 500MHz |
| Maximum acceleration frequency | 1398MHz |
| Number of execution units | 128 |
| Stream Processors / Shading Units | 1024 |
| Texture Units / TMUs | 64 |
| Raster Operations Units / ROPs | 32 |
| Total Graphics Power / TGP | 15W |
| FP32 computing performance |
2.86TFLOPS
|
| Single core performance score |
1578
|
|---|---|
| Multi-core performance score |
8596
|
| Single core performance score |
3922
|
|---|---|
| Multi-core performance score |
15505
|
| Integer math | 37 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | 38 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | 176 Million Primes/sec (Millions find prime numbers per second) |
| Random string sorting | 24.1 Million Strings/sec (Millions random string sorting per second) |
| Data encryption | 9.6 GBytes/sec (Gigabits per second) |
| Data compression | 188.6 MBytes/sec (megabits per second) |
| Physics simulation | 1691 Frames/sec (FPS) |
| Extended instruction test | 7 Billion Matrices/sec (Billions matrix operations per second) |
| Single core performance |
2619
|
|---|---|
| Multi-core performance |
10137
|
| File compression | 1140 MB/sec (megabits per second) |
| clang compilation | 79.8 Klines/sec (thousands lines per second) |
| HTML5 browsing | 239.5 pages/sec (pages per second) |
| PDF rendering | 276 Mpixels/sec (megapixels per second) |
| Text processing | 257.8 pages/sec (pages per second) |
| Background blur | 42 images/sec (images per second) |
| Photo processing | 106.5 images/sec (images per second) |
| Ray tracing | 10.5 Mpixels/sec (megapixels per second) |