Apple released the M2 Pro and M2 Max as its new high-end processors for Mac, titles that are likely to be lost in the future to the supposed M2 Ultra. This Friday (27), the macworld released a chart that compares the performance evolution of all platforms developed by Apple for the iPhone, iPad and more.
You can see from the overall ranking that the M2 Max is around 21% more powerful than its predecessor, but the M2 Pro is still slightly slower than the M1 Max. Despite the improvements of the new generation, the Apple’s fastest processor title still belongs to the M1 Ultra53% faster than the runner-up.
Another detail that can be extracted from the benchmark tests — such as were performed using Geekbench 5, considering multi-core scores — is the advantage of only 15% of the M2 over the M1. The most basic chip in the current lineup kept the CPU core count but increased the number of graphics cores up to 10 units.
Although the “M” line was created along the lines of the “A” line of chips for the iPhone, there is a significant difference in the number of graphics cores and hardware power consumption. The M1, for example, is 87% faster than the A14 Bionic, even though both were introduced with many similarities in 2020.
The significant performance difference is due to the thermal design of the chips. The A14 Bionic, like all its successors up to the A16 Bionic, has a TDP of only 6W, according to the analysis of macworld. The M1, on the other hand, has much more room to cool on a Mac, allowing it to use 14W TDP.
To be the fastest processor, the M1 Ultra is also the one that consumes the most. With 20 cores, the TDP is 60W, exactly double the M1 Max and M2 Max. This is because the “Ultra” version is just the combination of two units of the “Max” version on a single chip.
Powered by UltraFusion, Apple’s innovative packaging architecture that interconnects the arrays of two M1 Max chips to create a system-on-a-chip (SoC) with unrivaled levels of performance and features, the M1 Ultra delivers impressive processing power.
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It should be noted that the M1 Ultra can achieve multi-core performance close to the 24-core Intel Core i9-13900K, one of Intel’s most advanced processors, consuming much less energy. This hardware should be succeeded by the M2 Ultra still in 2023, according to rumors, and could make its debut in a new generation of Mac Pro.
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