Apple’s M2 Chip Promises Big Performance Boost For New MacBook Air

fuel the newMacBook Airand MacBook Pro 13 is Apple ’s second - propagation processor , the M2 . Built on the same platform as its predecessor , the M2 boasts pep pill and memory bandwidth to enable significantly faster performance — at least , according to Apple .

We should be getting our work force on the fresh laptops tend M2 in the futurity , at which point we ’ll put the chip through some rigorous benchmarking . In the meanwhile , we ’ll have to take Apple ’s word that the M2 ’s 20 billion transistors will drive significantly faster processor and GPU speed than the M1 C.P.U. .

Perhaps the most welcome update is support for up to 24 GB of LPDDR5 memory , up from the 16 GB on the previous chip . While short of the 32 GB found on other ultra - portable PCs , the update resolve one of the most fulgent limitations of the M1 . It also increases bandwidth to 100GB / s , up 50 % from the previous generation .

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Still base on 5 - nanometer technology , the M2 has an eight - centre CPU consisting of four performance and four efficiency core and up to a 10 - core GPU , up from the eight - heart artwork in the M1 .

Apple says its multi - core GPU performance is 18 % greater than the M1 and 1.9x faster than a 10 - core Windows personal computer while using only one - fourth of the powerfulness . This sophomore chip shot , with its 10 - essence GPU , can now purportedly surrender up to 35 % profligate graphics performance than before . Apple says it is 2.3x faster than integrated graphics in a personal computer using one - fifth the superpower , though it did n’t specify which competition it benchmarked .

In more practical terms , the M2 with Apple ’s Metal 3 API can play Resident Evil Village natively at 1080p using MetalFX upscaling and secular antialiasing , grant to Capcom .

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Apple feature about the M2 ’s efficiency , though the new MacBook Air incur the same assault and battery life as the previous fashion model , topping out at 18 hours when running television playback . That efficiency also enables the MacBook Air to be all fanless despite bring 40 % faster functioning .

We expect Apple to build off the M2 processor later this year when it announce update to its more herculean Mac and MacBook Pro models .

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