New benchmark results have emerged from a 13-inch MacBook Pro with an M2 chip, showing a significant performance advantage over the previous M1 generation.
The Geekbench 5 results today published refer to a Mac with model number 14.7 and macOS 12.4. The Mac itself is equipped with 16 GB of RAM. In the Geekbench 5 single-core test, the M2 chip received a score of 1919. The same chip achieved a score of 8928 in the multi-core Geekbench. For comparison, a 2020 MacBook Pro with an M1 chip achieved a single-core score of 1749 and a multi-core score of 7719.
M2 benchmarks confirmed significant performance improvement
This means that the new Apple M2 chip has a demonstrable increase in performance. Like the M1, the M2 is an Apple Silicon system-on-chip (SoC) with eight cores, manufactured in a 5-nanometer manufacturing process. Apple itself says that the CPU of the M2 chip is 18 % faster than that of the M1. In the Geekbench 5 comparison, the M2 chip is 11.6 % faster than the M1 in the single-core rating and 19.5 % faster in the multi-core rating. Apple also states that the M2 offers 25 % more performance than the M1 with comparable power consumption. (Image: Apple)
