WWDC 2022 concluded with the launch of a redesigned MacBook Air and a new generation of MacBook Air. 13-inch MacBook Pro. In both cases, equipped with a new processor: the M2 chip. This arrives to renew the M1 that the company announced in 2020, when it began the transition from Intel chips to its own ARM processors and, according to Apple, it is up to 18% more powerful.
Although it is not possible to verify this performance for oneself, since neither of the two equipment is for sale, a benchmark filtered out made with a 13-inch MacBook Pro model suggests that the Cupertino firm is right.
According to the performance tests carried out with the mentioned equipment, the M2 chip reaches a score of 1,919 in a single core, and reaches a multi-core score of 8,941. The M1 chip, on the other hand, scores 1707 in single-core tests and 7419 in multi-core tests. This translates to an 11.56% improvement in single-core performance over the M2 chip and a 19.45% improvement in multi-core over the M1 chip., according to data available on Geekbench Browser. The results, therefore, coincide with those detailed by the company.
The leaked test of the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M2 chip has also been useful to compare the performance against the 8-core M1 Pro chip. Appleās new SoC, in particular, sits very close to the processor available in base 14-inch MacBook Pro models, which reaches a multi-core score of 9511. A surprising fact.
The MacBook Pro with M2 chip will be available at the end of June
The equipment with which the performance tests have been carried out through GeekBench; the MacBook Pro with M2 chip, can be purchased on June 24 at a starting price of 1,619 euros for the model with a 8 core GPU, one 10 core CPU and a unified memory of 8 GB. At the moment, it is unknown when the MacBook Air will be available with the same configuration, whose price stands at 1,519 euros.
Apple, on the other hand, could soon announce new MacBook Pro models with M2 Pro and M2 Pro Max chipwhich will improve the performance of the current M1 Pro and M1 Pro Max.