I look forward to watching movies at a much faster rate than on current iPads.
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'M2 Max' Geekbench Scores Surface Again Online Ahead of Release in 2023
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I’m waiting on the m2 max iMac although I have eyeballed the mbp for the ability to game on the couch while watching tv/movies and portability…
Looks like I won't give my son a choice for his Uni laptop.
Cool.
Just in time for Tim Cook's surprise reveal of the Apple Silicon Mac Pro on Christmas day!
Just in time for Tim Cook's surprise reveal of the Apple Silicon Mac Pro on Christmas day!
The OP states that the model identifier was Mac14,6… now the Mac Studio is Mac13,1&2 and the 2022 13-inch MacBook Pro M2 is Mac14,7 (yes, odd… vs the 2021 MBP 13-inch being MacBookPro17,1 and the 14/16-inch M1 Pros being MacBookPro18,1–4). I'm guessing this could be the M2 Mac mini (M1 min is Macmini9,1) or a 13-inch MBP variant (they'd be an easy chassis to test on, plenty of room in there for a socketing CPU, decent cooling overhead).
As to the delta in scores, my hypothesis is that one is on battery and the other on power.
And these are certainly Apple-controlled leaks. At this point, my belief is that Apple has become master manipulators… the very "talking head" in the 1984 commercial the company (at the time) PR'ed that they despised.
Zero logic, as the M1 Max Mac Studio has the same "memory limit" as the M1 Max MacBook Pro...
Apple is using higher capacity chips in the M2 family, so...
- M2 = 24GB max RAM
- M2 Pro = 48GB max RAM
- M2 Max = 96GB max RAM
- M2 Ultra = 192GB max RAM
- M2 Extreme = 384GB max RAM
It’s not, and I seriously wish people would stop pushing that narrative.
Apple has a history of process shrinks in their own custom silicon, and it always has happened the same way.
Take the shrink from 7 nm down to 5 nm.
First appeared in the iPhone 12 and iPad Air4 with the “A14” chip, the least demanding, lowest end processor in their main line-up.
Then it came to the lowest end Mac computers and iPads with the “M1”, a chip for the MacBook Air and the iPad.
Then, months and months later, it finally came to the MacBook Pros with the “M1pro/max”.
And then, another seven months after that, it finally came to a top-of-the-line desktop computer with the “M1ultra”.
And it more than likely will come to the Mac Pro next year.
People expecting Apple to jump to 3 nm on the Best of the top-of-the-line products are getting it totally backwards.
It’ll come to the “A17”, then the “M3”, then the “M3pro/max”, then the “M3ultra/extreme or whatever it’ll be called”.
This is nothing new.
I am more so interested in the GPU performance
The increased GPU performance of M2 was mostly due to the large increased memory bandwidth from 68GB/s for M1 to 100GB/s for M2.
The increased came from both memory bandwidth and extra cores. Both are important for that high increase
We'll definitely see one in Spring before WWDC. Though if they're already posting Geek Bench scores I get the feeling a release is soon (Q1 2023), especially since it's reporting MacOS version 13.2.
Traditionally MacOS x.2 versions come out by late January, early February. Apple has often introduced new MacBook Pros in late February, early March. I'll be surprised if they aren't out by then.
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Yep, this is why I've been holding out instead of grabbing a deal on current models.
(If I didn't have a 10% discount on new Apple stuff though I definitely would have bought an M1)
Actually apart from MBA Apple has never released a MBP earlier than in May according to MR Buyer's guide. Not saying they couldn't/wouldn't since the new chips seems to be ready.
when i said that you gain 35% just from the extra cores? i just said both are important for that gain, read again please
You can clearly see how M1 8gpu cores compares with M2 8 gpu cores around 16% increase(from the bandwith) and the rest is from the extra 2 cores, so its almost 50-50
you can bet these new Macbook pro will come in spring, probably April or May, maybe even soonerActually apart from MBA Apple has never released a MBP earlier than in May according to MR Buyer's guide. Not saying they couldn't/wouldn't since the new chips seems to be ready.
Do you know if he has the M2 with 10 gpu cores somewhere in there ? Too bad he didnt add the M2 to the comparison after its release
Yes, the word "performance" refers to many things. The sheer execution performance (how fast is it?) is just one metric. How much power it consumes while achieving that first metric is thermal performance. The M2 may not deliver massive leaps in execution performance, but it delivers it in a more efficient thermal package, therefore better battery life. Heat is a waste of energy. Less heat = longer battery life.
You said in your previous post "Like with the m1 vs m2 we should see a 35% faster gpu". If the memory bandwidth for M2 Pro/Max is the same we won't likely see 35% better performance. I didn't say you said it's just because of the two extra GPU cores. I said the majority of the perfromance increase was thanks to the higher memory bandwidth. So if the memory bandwidth will remain the same we'll see around 16% better GPU performance for the same number of cores.
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In real world usage i notice that Safari takes at least 2 seconds slower to display the websites I visit compared to Firefox.
Once again, Tim “Delay” Cook misses getting product out the door.