Comparing Apple M2 (8-GPU) vs Apple M2 (8-GPU)

description_compare Apple A16 Bionic and Apple M2 (8-GPU)

• Name
  Apple A16 Bionic Apple M2 (8-GPU)
• Family
  Apple A series Apple M series
• CPU group
  Apple A16 Apple M2
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  16 2
• Predecessor
  Apple A15 Bionic (5-GPU) Apple M1

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

• CPU Cores / Threads
  6 / 6 8 / 8
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• A-Core
  2x Everest 4x Avalanche
• B-Core
  4x Sawtooth 4x Blizzard
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• A-Core Frequency
  3.46 GHz 3.50 GHz
• B-Core Frequency
  2.02 GHz 2.80 GHz

• GPU name
  Apple A16 (5 GPU Cores) Apple M2 (8 Core)
• GPU frequency
  0.70 GHz 1.40 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  160 128
• Shader
  1280 1024
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 24 GB
• Max. displays
  3 2
• Generation
  13 2
• Technology
  4 nm 5 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2022 Q2/2022

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode Decode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

• Memory type
  LPDDR5-6400 LPDDR5-6400
• Max. Memory
  6 GB 24 GB
• Memory channels
  1 (Single Channel) 2 (Dual Channel)
• Bandwidth
  51.2 GB/s 102.4 GB/s
• ECC
  No No
• PCIe
  4.0
• AES-NI
  No Yes

• TDP (PL1)
  8.5 W 22 W
• TDP down
  -- 10 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 100 \xc2\xb0C

• Technology
  4 nm 5 nm
• Chip design
  Chiplet Chiplet
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• L2-Cache
  20.00 MB 20.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  24.00 MB --
• Architecture
  A16 M2
• Operating systems
  iOS macOS, iPadOS
• Virtualization
  None Apple Virtualization Framework
• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
• Release date
  Q3/2022 Q2/2022
• Documents
  -- Technical data sheet