Talk:Apple M2

Incorrect GPU information

The GPU descriptions of M1 and M2 device families states that a GPU core consists of 16 8-wide execution units. Where did this information come from? Apple does not provide architectural details of this nature about their GPUs and all circumstantial evidence points to 4 32-wide execution units (patents, Metal documentation, various WWDC sessions, and microbenchmarking such as https://github.com/philipturner/metal-benchmarks)

I submitted a correction, but it was reverted by another user for lacking a source (which I understand). Since no authoritative source exists, can we at least remove these hardware details until such source is available?

The real mr mobster (talk) 10:37, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

Catalog Rumored Hardware?

In the Products that use the Apple M2 series section, listed is a (rumored) Mixed reality headset. Do we really want to be cataloging rumored products? In the report by The Verge, they reference an article by Bloomberg that also talks about a rumored M2 Mac mini, yet this is not cataloged. I think we should stick to products Apple has actually released for this section, as this is still widely speculative. Zshrc (talk) 20:08, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

It's now gone. Guy Harris (talk) 22:04, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

Benchmarks

Sources are affilated with the Apple, we need better ones. AXONOV (talk) ⚑ 07:45, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

AfD response

It honestly makes no sense why this article was a keep just because it is a "major chip" Mutiple Qualcomm chips are very notable yet lacks an article. Would a say to afd this again because it still relies less than 2 sources. 2603:6080:7C40:5E0:E873:DCB1:CADB:8411 (talk) 10:24, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

If you think it needs to delete, you can make AFD page namely ‘Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Apple M2 (2nd nomination)’. —Hajoon0102 💬 11:59, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

Why past tense?

Why does this begin by referring to the M2 in past tense? It's still manufactured and used in new Apple devices, such as iPad Air. – 2605:8D80:420:444C:3109:D2B1:F33:933A (talk) 04:12, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

NPU clock?

The article mentioned 15,8 and 31.6 TOPS for the M2 resp. M2 Ultra but no source is given. It also lacks the data type for these numbers. I tried to derive it myself but for this you need the clock frequency of the chip. By running sudo powermetrics --samplers gpu_power you can get the GPU frequency. It idles around 800 Mhz on my M2. I don't know how the GPU and the NPU are connected. Bomberzocker (talk) 08:58, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

Physical dimensions?

How big is this chip physically? Seems like a useful bit of information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Treethinker (talk • contribs) 14:28, 3 May 2025 (UTC)