Apple M2
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Apple M2
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| Designer | Apple |
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| Introduced | June 2022 (WWDC — redesigned MacBook Air) |
| Process | 5 nm N5P (TSMC) — 20 billion transistors |
| CPU | 8-core: 4 Avalanche + 4 Blizzard · Pro: 10/12-core · Max: 12-core · Ultra: 24-core |
| GPU | 8/10-core · Pro: 16/19-core · Max: 30/38-core · Ultra: 60/76-core |
| Neural Engine | 16-core (15.8T ops/s) · Ultra: 32-core |
| Unified memory | Up to 24 GB (100 GB/s) · Pro: 32 GB · Max: 96 GB · Ultra: 192 GB (800 GB/s) |
| Devices | MacBook Air 13.6" (2022) · MacBook Pro 13" (2022) · Mac mini (2023) · MacBook Pro 14"/16" (2023) · MacBook Air 15" (2023) · Mac Studio (2023) · Mac Pro (2023) · iPad Pro (2022) · Apple Vision Pro (2024) |
| Predecessor | Apple M1 |
| Successor | Apple M3 |
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The Apple M2, announced at WWDC in June 2022, refined the M1 formula with the Apple A15 generation's Avalanche and Blizzard cores, a media engine with ProRes acceleration in the base chip for the first time, and a 24 GB memory ceiling. It debuted in the redesigned, wedge-free MacBook Air — the shape the world's best-selling laptop still holds.
1 Variants✎
The M2 Pro and M2 Max arrived in January 2023 in the MacBook Pro and, for the first time in the pro tier, the Mac mini. June 2023's M2 Ultra — 24 CPU cores, up to 76 GPU cores, 192 GB of memory — launched in both the Mac Studio and the long-awaited Mac Pro, the machine that completed the Mac's transition to Apple silicon three years after its announcement.
2 Legacy✎
The M2 generation finished what the M1 started: with the Mac Pro's arrival, every Mac ran Apple's own silicon. The chip had a second act, too — a binned M2 drives the Apple Vision Pro, paired with the R1 sensor-fusion coprocessor, making it the silicon behind Apple's first spatial computer.