Leaked Benchmarks Confirm M2 Chip is Up to 20% Faster Than M1

[MacRumors]

Apple's new M2 chip is up to 20 percent faster than the M1 chip when it comes to multi-core performance, according to leaked M2 benchmarks from the upcoming 13-inch MacBook Pro that were discovered on Geekbench today.

The M2, which runs at 3.49GHz compared to 3.2GHz for the M1, earned a single-core score of 1919, which is roughly 12 percent faster than the 1707 single-core score of the M1 13-inch MacBook Pro. The M2 earned a multi-core score of 8928, up about 20 percent from the 7419 score of the M1 model.

Apple has said that the M2 chip is up to 18 percent faster than the M1, so the Geekbench 5 test is right in line with Apple's claims.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1537107352171663360

As for the Metal benchmark, the M2 chip scored 30627, a notable improvement over the 21001 score earned by the M1. The M2 chip offers up to a 10-core GPU, compared to the 8-core maximum of the M1.

The M2 chip is available in the new 2022 MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro. Apple has not provided information on when the MacBook Air will launch, but the new MacBook Pro will be available for pre-order starting Friday, June 17.

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[threee]

 

[TheDailyApple]

That’s impressive.

 

[DHagan4755]

Closer to the $2,000 14" MacBook Pro than I thought. Wow.

 

[TehFalcon]

Faster single core performance than M1 Pro! Almost as fast in Multi.

 

[albert421]

That is actually insane. If you follow other mainstream CPU. They do not get a 20% increase per generation

 

[coolfactor]

Surely the MacBook Pro implementation is maxed out and running faster than the MacBook Air?

 

[tweaknmod]

I'm willing to bet one of the most impressive improvements, other than this, will be power efficiency. I'm very curious to see real-world battery life comparisons between the M1 and M2.

 

[Pirate!]

Now when can I pre-order the M2 Air?

 

[Return Zero]

That is actually insane. If you follow other mainstream CPU. They do not get a 20% increase per generation

Whenever they finally switch to 3nm process, gains should be even more massive!

 

[jav6454]

Apparently in line with IPC improvements between A14/A15

 

[GrumpyCoder]

Didn’t Apple say it’s up to 35% faster, but at a higher power consumption? If the benchmark is utilizing this type of workload it‘s disappointing, especially if the 20% is drawing more power which will turn into earlier throttling on the fabless MBA and less batterie life.

EDIT: Never mind, read that wrong, this is CPU only.

 

[vadimyuryev]

Wow, I'm impressed.

 

[vadimyuryev]

Didn’t Apple say it’s up to 35% faster, but at a higher power consumption? If the benchmark is utilizing this type of workload it‘s disappointing, especially if the 20% is drawing more power which will turn into earlier throttling on the fabless MBA and less batterie life.

Yes, these new M2 MacBooks could have worse battery life under load than the M1 MacBooks.
M2 MacBook Air should throttle quite a bit, especially under GPU load.

 

[gaximus]

Didn’t Apple say it’s up to 35% faster, but at a higher power consumption? If the benchmark is utilizing this type of workload it‘s disappointing, especially if the 20% is drawing more power which will turn into earlier throttling on the fabless MBA and less batterie life.

I think it was 35% faster GPU, this is a CPU benchmark.

 

[_Spinn_]

Very impressive numbers!

 

[boak]

I've been saying that the M2 MBA and the base 14-inch MBP should not have much difference in CPU performance. M1 Pro still wins in graphics performance though.

 

[magbarn]

While 12% single core performance increase is nothing to sneeze at, most MBA users won’t notice the difference in speed as most won’t be doing multi core tasks anyway. The other hardware upgrades are going to be more noticeable.

 

[GrumpyCoder]

I think it was 35% faster GPU, this is a CPU benchmark.

Yes, you’re right. I read that wrong, whenever I read benchmark, I think GPU. CPUs are overrated.

 

[MayaUser]

Impressive, probably the gpu increase will be even more impressive

 

[smetvid]

I've been saying that the M2 MBA and the base 14-inch MBP should not have much difference in CPU performance. M1 Pro still wins in graphics performance though.

And speakers, display quality and so forth. I upgraded from a M1 MBA to a base 14" MBP not for the CPU but for the GPU, XDR screen and extra ports. The fact the 14" can use two monitors out of the box was a big factor as well.

I already felt the CPU speed of the base M1 MBA was more than good enough for 95% of uses and I edit 4k video, create 3D animation, develop mobile apps, edit raw photography and did graphic design with it.

 

[MayaUser]

I'm willing to bet one of the most impressive improvements, other than this, will be power efficiency. I'm very curious to see real-world battery life comparisons between the M1 and M2.

the gpu will draw around 16W instead of 12W from M1 but 35% increase

 

[boak]

And speakers, display quality and so forth.

Yeah but I'm just talking about the chip here.

 

[urmaster]

AMD has been doing about 15% IPC per generation which is quite a bit higher than 20% multithreaded; but they obviously started from a lower place and have different design goals.

Edit: Butchered that quote 🤣

 

[lusty]

That is actually insane. If you follow other mainstream CPU. They do not get a 20% increase per generation

Actually they do, when increasing the clock speed by 10% and adding 20% more area. Intel have done this for many years on the tock generations, and on the ticks they reduce the process size. I hadn't realised the clock was so comparatively slow on M1, but this leaves scope for incremental speed increases for at least a decade to impress Apple fans with "amazing" increases. When they reach 5Ghz these will be really snappy chips, they already do a lot per cycle and when that cycle is shortened they'll be able to do a lot really fast!