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Apple M2 Max
12C/12T · 3.7 GHz
Released
Jan 24, 2023
CPULaptopReleased Nov 17, 2020
Apple M1
8C/8T · 3.2 GHz
The M1 is Apple's first system-on-chip designed for the Mac, announced in November 2020 with the MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro and Mac mini as the start of the transition away from Intel processors. It combines CPU, GPU, Neural Engine and unified memory in a single package built on TSMC's 5 nm process with 16 billion transistors. Apple sold it with either a seven- or an eight-core GPU, and it later moved into the 24-inch iMac, iPad Pro and iPad Air.
General
- Manufacturer
- Apple
- Model
- Apple M1
- Segment
- Laptop
- Generation
- M1 family
- Codename
- —
- Architecture
- ARM64
- Microarchitecture
- Firestorm/Icestorm
- Release date
- Nov 17, 2020
- Price
Cores & clocks
- Cores / threads
- 8 cores / 8 threadsP4+E4
- Base clock
- —
- Boost clock
- 3.20 GHz
- TDP (design W)
- —
- Unlocked
- ✕ No
- L2 cache
- 16 MB
- L3 cache
- —
- Technology (nm)
- 5 nm5 nm
Platform
- Socket
- BGA (soldered SoC)
- 2-CPU (multi-socket)
- ✕ No
- Integrated GPU
- Apple GPU (8-core)
- Memory type
- LPDDR4X-4266 (unified)
- Memory size
- 8 – 16 GB
- ECC memory
- —
- PCIe
- —
Instructions & AI
- Instruction extensions
- ARMv8.4-ANEONAMXFP16dotprodAESSHA3PAuth
- NPU
- 16-core Neural Engine — 11 TOPS
OS support
- macOS
- macOS
- Linux
- FedoraArch Linux
- Notes
- macOS 11 (Big Sur) and later; also used in iPad Pro and iPad Air models. Windows runs only inside a virtual machine such as Parallels. Asahi Linux supports the M1 generation, with Fedora Asahi Remix as the reference distribution and Arch Linux ARM also available; Ubuntu and ChromeOS are not supported. Apple does not publish base clocks or TDP figures.
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