Next MA will be more powerful than MBP with M1 Max?

[GoldPunch]

Hi guys. I ordered 16 inch 24 core M1 Max & 32 GB last day of 2021. I am still waiting to delivery but something in my mind. After the 14&16'' MBP updates, now it is turn to update their Macbook Air and 13'' But I'm curios, if Apple wont use M1 Pro&Max in their MA & 13'' MB lineup, it means they will use M2 chip instead. It puts them more powerful than M1 Pro and Max automatically. Current M1 Pro and Max users will be very dissapoint for that.

What do you think will be Apple's roadmap from now on?

 

[JPack]

M2 is limited in terms of performance because it will remain 8-core. M1 Pro/Max is a much larger chip and will continue to outperform M2 in multithreaded applications.

 

[casperes1996]

M2 is limited in terms of performance because it will remain 8-core. M1 Pro/Max is a much larger chip and will continue to outperform M2 in multithreaded applications.

This. But also, it's not just 8 cores. M1 is 4+4. The 8 core M1 Pro is 2+6. The M2 will likely also be a 4+4 configuration. Then there's the memory interface. I don't see the M2 getting 200+GB/s. Then there's the GPU. That's going to be no competition; Even with a 10 core GPU the MacBook Air isn't going to touch the higher GPU core counts of the Pro/Max. The SSDs also won't be as performant I imagine.
The MBA will win on one front though I'm confident; Battery life. Well, OK, two. It probably will also have slightly better single-threaded performance, but if you're buying an M1 Pro/Max machine you care about multi-threaded performance and/or GPU power and it's not gonna be touching the Pro/Max levels on those fronts

 

[StoneJack]

Hi guys. I ordered 16 inch 24 core M1 Max & 32 GB last day of 2021. I am still waiting to delivery but something in my mind. After the 14&16'' MBP updates, now it is turn to update their Macbook Air and 13'' But I'm curios, if Apple wont use M1 Pro&Max in their MA & 13'' MB lineup, it means they will use M2 chip instead. It puts them more powerful than M1 Pro and Max automatically. Current M1 Pro and Max users will be very dissapoint for that.

What do you think will be Apple's roadmap from now on?

The word is that M2 will be approximately 15-20% faster than M1; so that's the CPU situation. In terms of GPU, I don't know really. New MA may have FHD camera and maybe better speakers, we don't know. I don't think that MA2 will leapfrog over Pro models, but it may get closer in performance.

 

[dizmonk]

I wonder if the m2 MBA will still be fanless? That is one of the features I'm the fondest of with the current Air.

 

[jdb8167]

I wonder if the m2 MBA will still be fanless? That is one of the features I'm the fondest of with the current Air.

I think you can count on it. It is the one of the definitive differences between the M1 MacBook Air and a low-end M1 MacBook Pro which is also rumored to be coming along with the M2 update.