Apple Silicon: the M2 chip would crush the M1 in terms of performance

Jason Cross from Macworld published an interesting article about fleas called Silicon. It is based on the idea that the evolution of homemade fleas for Mac would follow that of mobile fleas.

He thus compares the Apple Silicon M2 chip, expected on a futureMacBook Pro, with the A15 mobile chip integrated into the latest iPhone 13. And it does the same with the M1 chip that appeared in 2020 on MacBook Mini and MacBook Pro 13 ″, which he compares to the A14 chip propelling the 2020 iPhone 12.

In this way, a parallel can be established between the evolution of the A14 chip at the A15 on iPhone and the potential progress of the M1 chip on M2 on Mac.

It is not an absurd idea, since the AX and MX chips meet on many points in terms of their design. This is evidenced by, among other things, Apple integration of the M1 chip on the last iPad Pro, in place of an evolution of the A14 chip.

How to predict the performance of the M2 chip?

These theoretical bases allow us to anticipate the power of the next M2 chip. First of all, you should know that the M1 has 4 high -performance hearts for the CPU part and 8 hearts for the GPU part. It is a kind of boosted A14 chip for the Mac. The A14 has 2 high -performance hearts for the CPU part and 4 hearts for the GPU part.

The A15 benefits from 5 GPU cores (on iPhone 13 pro/pro max only) and 4 high performance CPUs. One can imagine a M2 chip doubling this base: 10 GPU hearts and 8 high performance CPUs.

What would Geekbench say?

As the journalist reports, the passage from the A14 chip to the A15 chip underpinned aSimple-hearted 7 % gain in benchmarket20% in multicoirs benchmark. On the graphic performance side, the A15 has25 % more powercompared to the A14.

These figures can therefore serve as a basis for imagining the performance increase that the Apple Silicon M2 chip would underlying compared to the M1:

• Between5 et 10 %of more power insimple-heart
• Between15 et 25 %of more power inmulticoeors
• Between20 et 30 %of more power for thegraphic part

Obviously, all this is to be considered with care. It is possible that Apple keeps, for the M2, a power close to the M1, with a rather carried improvement on consumption and the emission of heat. All the same, it would be surprising to see the Californian firm offer a new SOC of its Apple Silicon line without significant performance gap compared to the previous generation.

Editor -in -chief for Iphon.fr. Pierre is such Indiana Jones, looking for the lost iOS tip. Also long -standing Mac user, Apple devices have in short, no secrets. Contact: Pierre [a] Iphon.fr.