There have been a number of reports of an M2 Mac this year, including the slightly odd idea of an entry-level M2 MacBook Pro model sitting below the M1 Pro and M1 Max models. We’ll need to see whether that happens and wait for M2 Mac benchmarks if it does.
But a new piece today suggests that we may be able to get a reasonably good idea of M2 Mac benchmarks by extrapolating…
Not from the M1 to the M1 Pro/Max chips, but rather, suggests Macworld’s Jason Cross, by looking at the generational leap from the A14 to A15. Here’s his argument:
M2 is to M1 as A15 is to A14. The M1 is based on the basic architecture of the A14, scaled up with double the number of high-performance CPU cores (four instead of two) and double the GPU cores (eight instead of four). It is, for lack of a better explanation, the “A14X” that otherwise would’ve been in the iPad Pro.
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