Performance difference 16gb v 24gb?

[dizmonk]

Has anyone seen any discussion or analysis about how 16gb vs 24gb affects performance in the M2? Any impact on battery life or heat? Thanks.

 

[Shirasaki]

No performance impact unless ur doing memory bandwidth intensive tasks. Battery impact and whatnot is essentially negligible. Same as heat.

 

[jdb8167]

Has anyone seen any discussion or analysis about how 16gb vs 24gb affects performance in the M2? Any impact on battery life or heat? Thanks.

I wouldn't expect any difference in performance unless your working set doesn't fit in RAM and a very small impact on battery life. More transistors means more power required but it will be very small. According to power metrics command line tool, the DRAM power is between 42 and 62 mW idle for my 24 GB M2 MBA.