Apple M2 (8-GPU) - CPU Specs

Specifications Benchmarks Synonyms

Specifications

Technical data

Legacy catalog specifications; the original verification date is not recorded.

CPU generation and family

CPU group
Apple M2
Family
Apple M series
Generation
2
Name
Apple M2 (8-GPU)
Predecessor
Apple M1
Segment
Mobile
Successor
—

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

A-Core
4x Avalanche
A-Core Frequency
3.5 GHz
B-Core
4x Blizzard
B-Core Frequency
2.8 GHz
Core architecture
hybrid (big.LITTLE)
CPU Cores
8
CPU Threads
8
Hyperthreading / SMT
No
Overclocking
No

Internal Graphics

DirectX Version
—
Execution units
128
Generation
2
GPU Frequency
1400 MHz
GPU name
Apple M2 (8 Core)
GPU Turbo
No turbo
Max. displays
2
Max. GPU Memory
24 GB
Release date
Q2/2022
Shader
1024
Technology
5 nm

Hardware codec support

AV1
No
H.264 / AVC
Conflicting source values: Decode | Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
Decode / Encode
JPEG
Decode / Encode
VC-1
Decode
VP8
Decode
VP9
Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

ECC
No
Max. Memory
24 GB
Memory Bandwidth
102.4 GB/s
Memory channels
2 (Dual Channel)
Memory type
LPDDR5-6400
PCIe
4.0

Encryption

AES-NI
Yes

Thermal Management

Maximum Operating Temperature
100 °C
TDP (PL1, legacy label)
22 W
TDP (PL2)
—
TDP down
10 W
TDP up
—

Technical details

Architecture
M2
Chip design
Chiplet
Documents
Technical data sheet
Instruction set (ISA)
ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions
Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
L2-Cache
20.00 MB
L3-Cache
—
Operating systems
macOS, iPadOS
Part Number
—
Release date
Q2/2022
Release price
—
Socket
—
Technology
5 nm
Virtualization
Apple Virtualization Framework

Positions in all rankings

Common positions Apple M2 (8-GPU) CPU in popular benchmarks, for comparison with other models.

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

37 place
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

169 place
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

47 place
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

164 place
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

43 place
Blender 2.81 (bmw27)

64 place
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

228 place

Benchmarks

Performance tests CPU

Compare the scores of popular benchmarks Apple M2 (8-GPU) with other processors to understand the real speed of the CPU when processing content.

Tests include mathematical calculations, creation of 3D models, cryptocurrency mining, tests in single and multi-core modes.

These are saved results from the earlier catalog. Measurement dates and test configurations were not recorded. Models with no comparable results are omitted.

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Maxon's Cinebench R23 SC is a cross-platform test suite for macOs and Windows uses one CPU core, with no hypetrading

Higher values are better in this metric.

1695

Apple M2 (8-GPU)

1712

Intel Core i5-13400F

1712

Intel Core i5-13400

All the benchmark results

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Maxon's Cinebench R23 MC is a cross-platform test suite for macOs and Windows using a multi-core and hyperthreading

Higher values are better in this metric.

8714

Apple M2 (8-GPU)

8805

AMD Ryzen 7 1700X

8805

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X

All the benchmark results

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 SC is a popular cross-platform performance test for desktop or mobile processors that uses system memory intensively

Higher values are better in this metric.

1874

Apple M2 (8-GPU)

1878

Intel Core i9-11900K

1878

Intel Core i9-11900KB

All the benchmark results

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 MC is a popular cross-platform performance test for desktop or mobile processors that uses system memory intensively

Higher values are better in this metric.

8853

Apple M2 (8-GPU)

8916

Intel Core i7-7820X

8903

Intel Xeon E5-2697 v4

All the benchmark results

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The performance of the iGPU - the internal GPU in games

Higher values are better in this metric.

2840 GFLOPS

Apple M2 (8-GPU)

3548 GFLOPS

AMD Ryzen 7 6800H

3548 GFLOPS

AMD Ryzen 7 6800U

All the benchmark results

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)

Blender is Open Source Software, creating predefined 3D scenes and measuring the time to execute them

Lower values are better; time in seconds.

277 s

Apple M2 (8-GPU)

242.2 s

Intel Core i9-9880H

251.2 s

Intel Core i9-9980HK

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

PassMark is a test suite that performs complex mathematical calculations to determine CPU performance on file compression, encryption and physics-related tasks

Higher values are better in this metric.

15472

Apple M2 (8-GPU)

15531

AMD Ryzen 7 1800X

15510

Intel Xeon Silver 4116

All the benchmark results

Synonyms

Nearby models in the composite benchmark index.

These are saved results from the earlier catalog. Measurement dates and test configurations were not recorded. Models with no comparable results are omitted. Index 0–100: equal-weight mean of each score relative to the best saved score among models with both tests. Tests: Cinebench R23 Multi-Core + Geekbench 5 Multi-Core. This index does not predict performance in every workload.