Apple M2: New MacBook processor up to 45% more powerful than M1

At its WWDC 2022 conference earlier this month, Apple unveiled a new MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro, but most importantly, the new M2 chip, a direct successor to the previous generation M1 processor. A few days before the official launch of the laptops, we already know everything about the performance of the new version.

Indeed, the M2 chip has already passed the ranks of various benchmarks, including GFXBench and Cinebench R23. Apple has announced that the graphics performance will be up to 35% higher than the M1 chip, but it seems that the M2 chip finally exceeded its expectations. In GFX, initial tests on GFXBench revealed a performance increase of about 40-45%. In Cinebench, the GPU of the M2 chip scores 1701 and 8538 points, versus 1498 and 7660 points in the previous generation.

The CPU of the M2 chip is also faster than the M1 chip.

On the CPU side, a study in the Geekbench benchmark reveals that the new M2 CPU is about 20% faster than the M1, while Apple is only announcing an 18% increase.

The comparison shows that the speed of the M2 is 3.49 GHz compared to 3.2 GHz, which is an increase of about 9% for the M1. According to testing in the Geekbench 5 test, the 13-inch MacBook Pro with the M2 chip scored 1,919 points in the single-core test and 8,928 points in the multi-core test.

These two results mark a significant increase over the M1, which scored 1,707 and 7,419, respectively. Therefore, M2’s single core performance is approximately 11.56% faster than M1, and M2’s multi-core performance is 19.45% faster than M1. Only two processors in one core can beat the M2 chip: Intel Core i9-12900K and KF.