News Apple's M2 Benchmarked: Mediocre CPU Meets Impressive GPU

[Admin]

Geekbench results of Apple's M2 SoC show tiny single-thread CPU performance improvements and notable GPU performance hikes.

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[dehjomz]

While this update is not a massive improvement over m1, what Is impressive is (if found to be true in other apps) the notion that m2 at 3.5 Ghz has much better single core performance than Golden Cove which boosts to 5 Ghz+. The m2 consumes barely 30W under an all core load, which means an individual core is consuming approx 5W. Also, this is a second generation 5 nm design. What is going to happen when TSMC 3nm is in volume production, and apple can use the increased density to offer more cpu and gpu cores and bigger caches?

Luckily for Intel and AMD , apple isn’t a merchant cpu Vendor. Dell, Lenovo, HP, can’t buy avalanche or blizzard cores for use in laptops. But if apple were to enter the cpu market, and could produce at scale, this level of performance at such little power consumption could render the more power hungry x86 products obsolete overnight Especially if windows can run x86 apps on ARM similar to Rosetta 2 on macOS. Intel and AMD had better be careful. Shots fired.

 

[Quenepas]

While this update is not a massive improvement over m1, what Is impressive is (if found to be true in other apps) the notion that m2 at 3.5 Ghz has much better single core performance than Golden Cove which boosts to 5 Ghz+. The m2 consumes barely 30W under an all core load, which means an individual core is consuming approx 5W. Also, this is a second generation 5 nm design. What is going to happen when TSMC 3nm is in volume production, and apple can use the increased density to offer more cpu and gpu cores and bigger caches?

Luckily for Intel and AMD , apple isn’t a merchant cpu Vendor. Dell, Lenovo, HP, can’t buy avalanche or blizzard cores for use in laptops. But if apple were to enter the cpu market, and could produce at scale, this level of performance at such little power consumption could render the more power hungry x86 products obsolete overnight Especially if windows can run x86 apps on ARM similar to Rosetta 2 on macOS. Intel and AMD had better be careful. Shots fired.

I'm sure this has been discussed in the higher echelons of Apple executive branch. Apple entrance as a silicon provider for other vendors would shoot their stock to the roof at the expense of Intel, AMD and Nvidia. A key player that would see the most benefit would be Microsoft who would rapidly allocate resources to run Windows natively in MX SoCs.

Still it seems Apple strategy is to provide "long lasting" devices so they can monetize throughout it's lifetime. Apple market penetration is still in single digits and would be interesting if it has improved with these new offerings.

 

[kaalus]

Mediocre CPU? This must be a joke. It's 4 or 5 times more efficient per watt than anything Intel or AMD have, and twice as good compared to other Arm processors. Basically, a gem, a wonder that is several years ahead of everything else. But TH calls it "mediocre".

 

[scottsoapbox]

Mediocre CPU? This must be a joke. It's 4 or 5 times more efficient per watt than anything Intel or AMD have, and twice as good compared to other Arm processors. Basically, a gem, a wonder that is several years ahead of everything else. But TH calls it "mediocre".

Mediocre CPU GAINS

It's embarrassing you can't even read the title of the article you are incorrectly criticizing.

 

[techconc]

It’s kind of funny how we just focus on the CPU still. With 20% CPU increase, 35+% GPU increase, 40% NPU increase, 50% memory bandwidth increase, improved media blocks, etc. it’s clear that the M2 is a worthy successor to the M1. All this while maintaining industry leading performance per watt. It’s even more amazing in the context of this raising the bar for Apple’s LOW END silicon for PCs.

 

[grince]

I want to see a comparison between this and ryzen 7 6800u, I believe they should be very close. (but apple efficiency would win.)

 

[kaalus]

Mediocre CPU GAINS

It's embarrassing you can't even read the title of the article you are incorrectly criticizing.

"Apple's M2 Benchmarked: Mediocre CPU Meets Impressive GPU" is the title of the article.

When you learn to read, please come back.

 

[grince]

"Apple's M2 Benchmarked: Mediocre CPU Meets Impressive GPU" is the title of the article.

When you learn to read, please come back.

are u guys 12 or something?