M2 Processor Controversy: Apple Exaggerates?Excellent performance, but the gap with Intel widens.
Intel's M-series processors, although very good and can even be compared to Intel's i9, are actually an illusion that it is not much different from the i9, but there is a big gap in performance.
As a leader in the high-tech field, Apple's products have attracted much attention in various fields, so whenever a new product comes out, there will be a large number of evaluators to evaluate, and this time, this M2 processor is favored by many evaluation companies, so when this Mac with M2 processor came out, it was evaluated by evaluation companies.
According to the evaluation of foreign media, although the performance of M2 is good, it is only relative to Intel's 12th generation Core i9, and the single-core ability is only equivalent to the 12th generation Core i3, that is to say, in terms of multi-core ability, M2's Mac is slightly inferior to Intel.
Since the advent of smartphones, its processors have been endowed with higher capabilities, because in most cases, mobile phones are used to execute a piece of software, not for multitasking, therefore, at this point, Apple's processors are dual-core structures, and the current A15 processors are only six-core structures, while Android processors are eight-core structures that have been used for a long time.
Years of experience have shown that Apple has always adhered to the advantages of a CPU, so today's mobile ** industry has gradually realized the role of a core, and now, Apple has also extended this function to PC chips, emphasizing the performance of a single core, but ignoring the performance of multiple cores.
The M2 is currently the strongest single-core in the world, slightly inferior in multi-core capabilities compared to the Intel Core i9, but it is still a very good chip, and it symbolizes the top of the ARM system.
ARM is currently the hegemon in the field of mobile phone processors in the world, following the hegemony in the field of mobile phone processors, ARM has also tried to enter the field of personal computers, servers and other fields, but in recent years, there have been many personal computers, servers and other chip manufacturers have been out of the game, until Apple launched the M series, this major progress has been realized.
Apple released the M1 chip in 2020, which is also the first ARM chip, and its performance is comparable to Intel's 11th generation Core i7, although this may be a bit exaggerated, but its multi-core capabilities are still a certain distance from Intel i7, after all, some professionals have pointed out that their comprehensive capabilities are not exactly the same. A similar review software like Geekbench is also widely seen as a bias against Apple.
Until now, except for Apple, no mobile phone manufacturer has been able to develop processors similar to Apple's M series, Intel, etc., which is also a sad reason, except for Apple, all mobile phone manufacturers use public ARM cores, so their performance has never been able to break the ARM architecture, which is frustrating.
Although the Apple M2 processor is not as strong as Intel's Intel processor in several features, it has twice as long battery life than Intel, and it can be made thinner, so this laptop is still very competitive in a sluggish PC. Although Intel has been hit hard, sales of Apple's laptops have been the opposite.