There is no AV1 decode support indicated, however. Media capabilities seem similar to those of the M1 including support for 8K H.264 and HEVC video decode and 4K and 8K Apple ProRes. The Cupertino giant claimed that the M2's GPU is 2.3x faster than the Iris Xe Graphics G7 96 EUs in the Core i7-1255U and can match the latter's peak performance while consuming just a fifth of the power. Apple said that the M2's GPU offers a 25% higher performance at the same power level as the M1's 8-core GPU while offering up to 35% increased performance at max power. On the GPU side, the M2 now boasts of a 10-core GPU with a larger cache and a higher memory bandwidth. The M2 is apparently 1.9x faster than the Core i7-1255U at 15 W and can also deliver 90% of the performance of a Core i7-1260P in the MSI Prestige 14 Evo. The company claimed an 18% performance uplift from the M1 at the 15 W envelope, which does seem to be on expected lines given the minor process improvements. Both systems were equipped with 16 GB RAM.
Apple said that M2 offers up to 24 GB of 100 GB/s unified memory bandwidth together with 25% more transistors (20 billion) compared to the M1 owing to an enhanced, second generation 5 nm process.Īpple compared the M2's CPU performance to the "latest 10-core PC laptop chip", which essentially refers to the Intel Core i7-1255U in the Samsung Galaxy Book2 360.
Apple unveiled the M2 silicon at WWDC 2022 promising all-round improvements in CPU and GPU performance compared to the M1 SoC.Īccording to Apple, the M2 sports an 8-core 4+4 CPU configuration that is supposedly 18% faster, a 35% more powerful 10-core GPU, and a 40% faster Neural Engine compared to its predecessor, the Apple M1. Discrete graphics cards are not supported and GPU graphs will not appear unless Intel graphics is in use.After having been the subject of several leaks over the past few months, it is finally here. Note: Graphs will not appear if your processor does not have the appropriate hardware counters. A command line version of the tool (PowerLog3.0.exe) is also included
Set of driver and libraries which access and post process the processor energy counter to calculate the power usage in Watts, temperate in Celsius and frequency in GHz. Intel Power Gadget for macOS consists of the following components. The API layer is a set of libraries and dlls that can be called and offers the flexibility to build the tool within code sections of an application. The multi-socket support essentially evaluates the Energy MSR on a per-socket basis and provides an estimate of power draw per socket. In version 3.0 there are additional features that include estimation of power on multi-socket systems as well as externally callable APIs to extract power information within sections of code.
The motivation for the tool was to assist end-users, ISV’s, OEM’s, developers, and others interested in a more precise estimation of power from a software level without any H/W instrumentation. Traditional methods to estimate power/energy usage of the processor has always been a cumbersome task that included special purpose tools or instrumentation on the platform along with third party equipment. With this release, it is providing the functionality to evaluate power information on various platforms including notebooks, desktops and servers.
It is supported on Windows* and Mac OS X* and includes an application, driver, and libraries to monitor and estimate real-time processor package power information in watts using the energy counters in the processor. Intel® Atom™ processors are not supported.
Intel Power Gadget for Mac is a software-based power usage monitoring tool enabled for Intel® Core™ processors (from 2nd Generation up to 7th Generation Intel® Core™ processors).
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