Apple announces new M2 processors

[TinTinSnowy]

Do we have any benchmarks?

Zen 4 is not promising big jumps despite the move to 5nm. So I don't think there's much indication that Zen 5 will be a huge jump either.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-zen-4-ryzen-7000-has-810-ipc-uplift-more-than-35-overall-performance-gain

AMD also clarified that Zen 4 processors would have >25% performance-per-watt and >35% overall performance improvements.

Raptor Lake or even Meteor Lake based LG Gram will be interesting when they come.

 

[ankur1211]

The memory is soldered down and is a part of the CPU die, there's no separate memory module. And forget RAM, the Mac Studio has two M.2 ports and still doesn't allow storage expansion. They've built the storage controller onto the CPU and hence standard SSDs don't work.

As to why, simply because then you'll be forced to keep buying everything from Apple. You can't buy a computer from Apple then give the revenue for storage modules to WD. This way they can also ridiculously overprice components like ₹20k for 8 GB RAM or ₹40k for 1 TB SSD, which would otherwise cost 3k and 7k respectively.

I saw that on Linus Tech Tips, how what they are using for storage is not actually an SSD.

 

[salian]

If anyone is in the market for an 13" M2 Macbook Pro, do try to get the custom SSD upgrade from 256GB to 512GB.

The reason is that the M2 version of 13" Macbook Pro with 256GB Storage has lower SSD transfer speeds than even the M1 version of the 13" Macbook Pro with 256GB Storage.

This is because the two 128 GB storage modules in the M1 model have been replaced by one single 256GB module in the base M2 model, which creates a bottleneck for SSD transfer speeds. If you get the 512GB variant (which is a custom upgrade) that is built using two 256GB modules and hence offers decent speeds.

Here's a youtube video explaining this in detail: