cpu
Apple M3
8C/8T · 4.0 GHz
Released
Nov 7, 2023
CPULaptopReleased Jun 24, 2022
Apple M2
8C/8T · 3.5 GHz
The M2 is the second-generation Apple silicon system-on-chip for the Mac, announced at WWDC in June 2022 with the redesigned MacBook Air. It is an incremental successor to the M1 rather than a redesign, reusing the same four-plus-four core structure while moving to the Avalanche and Blizzard cores first seen in the A15 and widening the memory interface. Apple sold it with either an eight- or a ten-core GPU, and it later found a second life outside the Mac as the processor in the Apple Vision Pro.
General
- Manufacturer
- Apple
- Model
- Apple M2
- Segment
- Laptop
- Generation
- M2 family
- Codename
- —
- Architecture
- ARM64
- Microarchitecture
- Avalanche/Blizzard (ARMv8.6-A)
- Release date
- Jun 24, 2022
- Price
Cores & clocks
- Cores / threads
- 8 cores / 8 threadsP4+E4
- Base clock
- —
- Boost clock
- 3.49 GHz
- TDP (design W)
- —
- Unlocked
- ✕ No
- L2 cache
- 20 MB
- L3 cache
- —
- Technology (nm)
- 5 nmTSMC N5P (5 nm)
Platform
- Socket
- BGA (soldered SoC)
- 2-CPU (multi-socket)
- ✕ No
- Integrated GPU
- Apple GPU (8- or 10-core)
- Memory type
- LPDDR5-6400 (unified)8-channel
- Memory size
- 8 – 24 GB
- ECC memory
- ✕ No
- PCIe
- PCIe 4.0 / Thunderbolt 4
Instructions & AI
- Instruction extensions
- ARMv8.6-ANEONAMXFP16BF16i8mmdotprodAESSHA3PAuth
- NPU
- 16-core Neural Engine — 15.8 TOPS
OS support
- macOS
- macOS
- Linux
- FedoraArch Linux
- Notes
- macOS 12.4 (Monterey) and later; also used in iPad Pro and Apple Vision Pro. Windows runs only inside a virtual machine such as Parallels. Asahi Linux supports the M2 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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