M2

Base-tier member of the M2 family

3 variants

Spec	M2 8c CPU / 10c GPU	M2 8c CPU / 9c GPU	M2 8c CPU / 8c GPU
CPU
CPU Cores	8	8	8
Performance Cores	4	4	4
Performance Core Speed (GHz)	3.5	3.5	3.5
Efficiency Cores	4	4	4
Efficiency Core Speed (GHz)	2.42	2.42	2.42
L2 Cache (MB)	16	16	16
SLC Cache (MB)	8	8	8
GPU
GPU cores	10	9	8
Execution Units	40	36	32
ALU Count	1280	1152	1024
GPU Frequency (GHz)	1398	1398	1398
TFLOPS	3.578	3.221	2.863
GPU Vendor	5th-gen Apple	5th-gen Apple	5th-gen Apple
NPU
Neural Engine cores	16	16	16
Neural Engine TOPS	15.8	15.8	15.8
Memory
Memory bandwidth (GB/s)	102.4	102.4	102.4
Memory bus width (bits)	128	128	128
Memory channels	8	8	8
Memory channel width (bits)	16	16	16
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	LPDDR5-6400	LPDDR5-6400
Memory options (GB)	8 16 24	8 16 24	8 16 24
Media Engine
Hardware Acceleration	H264 HEVC ProRes ProRes RAW	H264 HEVC ProRes ProRes RAW	H264 HEVC
Video Decode	1	1	–
Video Encode	1	1	–
ProRes Engines	1	1	–
Semiconductor Tech
Process node (nm)	5	5	5
Transistors (billion)	20	20	20
Release date	2022-06-24	2024-05-07	2022-06-24

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