a sharp increase in GPU score

The chip scores over 30,000 points in Geekbench 5 Metal; the M1 tops out at around 18,000 points.

The M2 SoC presented by Apple earlier this month, which is due to debut in the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro next July, has made some inroads in the Geekbench 5 benchmark. The results show a decent increase in CPU performance, around 10% in single-core and 16% in multi-core compared to the M1. On the GPU side, the gain is much more massive, since it is around 67%.

Remember that the M2 retains 8 CPU cores, like the M1, but has 2 additional GPU cores. According to Apple, the average performance improvements in these areas are 18% and 35% respectively.

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Results

As always, these preliminary results do not consistently reflect actual performance in applications and should be viewed with some caution. They simply give an overview and seem to confirm the improvement, all in all logical given the increased quantity of GPU cores, in the graphics performance of the M2. The scoreboards below are provided by Tom’s Hardware US.