M2 (8C10G) vs Intel Core i7-12700K
            M2 (8C10G)
            
                
            
        
    
            Intel Core i7-12700K
            
                $350
            
        
    | 8 Cores 8 Threads 3.49GHz Clock | 12 Cores 20 Threads 3.6GHz Clock | 
| Socket Unknown | Socket LGA 1700 | 
| iGPU10-Core M2 3.58 TFLOPS FP32 | iGPUUHD 770 1500MHz 770 GFLOPS FP32 | 
| GB6S 2,640 65% | 
                                            
                                                GB6S 2,555
                                            
                                             63% | 
| GB6M 9,750 37% | 
                                            
                                                GB6M 13,785
                                            
                                             52% | 
| CB23S 1,600 62% | CB23S 1,940 75% | 
| CB23M 8,630 20% | CB23M 22,230 52% | 
| ManufacturerApple | ManufacturerIntel | 
| ArchitectureApple Silicon 11 | ArchitectureAlder Lake | 
| FamilyM Series | FamilyCore 12th Gen | 
| Instruction Set (ISA) AArch64 | Instruction Set (ISA) x86-64 | 
| Codename Staten - M2 P-Core Avalanche - - E-Core Blizzard | Codename Alder Lake-S - Alder Lake-8P-8E P-Core Golden Cove - - E-Core Gracemont | 
| Market Segment Laptop | Market Segment Desktop | 
| Release Date 6/6/2022 | Release Date 11/4/2021 | 
| Foundry TSMC - - - | Foundry Intel - - - | 
| Node N5P - - - | Node Intel 7 - - - | 
| Die Size 155 mm² - - - | Die Size 202 mm² - - - | 
| Transistor Count 20 Billion - - - | Transistor Count 14.6 Billion - - - | 
| Unknown | LGA 1700 | 
| 8 Cores 4 P-Cores - 4 E-Cores | 12 Cores 8 P-Cores - 4 E-Cores | 
| 8 Threads 4 P-Threads - 4 E-Threads | 20 Threads 16 P-Threads - 4 E-Threads | 
| P-Core 3.49GHz - - | P-Core 3.6GHz 5GHz Boost - | 
| - - - | - - - | 
| E-Core 2.42GHz - | E-Core 2.7GHz 3.8GHz Boost | 
| Overclocking Locked - - - | Overclocking Unlocked - - - | 
| Integrated Chipset - | Type DMI | 
| - - | - - | 
| - - | - - | 
| - - | Transfer Rate 16GT/s | 
| - - | - - | 
| - - | Lanes 8 | 
| - - | Bandwidth 16GB/s | 
| - - | Bi-directional 32GB/s | 
| L0 Instruction - - | L0 Instruction - - | 
| L0 Data - - | L0 Data - - | 
| L1 Instruction 192KB/P-Core 6-way set associative - - 128KB/E-Core 4-way set associative | L1 Instruction 32KB/P-Core 8-way set associative - - 64KB/E-Core 8-way set associative | 
| L1 Data 128KB/P-Core 4-way set associative - - 64KB/E-Core 2-way set associative | L1 Data 48KB/P-Core 12-way set associative - - 32KB/E-Core 8-way set associative | 
| L2 - - 16MB Shared 16-way set associative - - - - - - 4MB Shared (E-Core) 16-way set associative | L2 1280KB/Core 10-way set associative - - - - - - - - 2MB Shared (E-Core) 16-way set associative | 
| - - - - - - - - - - | L3 - 25MB Shared - 12-way set associative - - - - - | 
| - - - 8MB SLC Cache | - - - - | 
| Channels 2 | Channels 2 | 
| Max Memory 24GB | Max Memory 128GB 128GB | 
| ECC Not Supported | ECC Not Supported | 
| Bus Width/Channel 64Bit Bus Width 128Bit | Bus Width/Channel 64Bit Bus Width 128Bit | 
| Clock 3200MHz Transfer Rate 6400MT/s | Clock 2400MHz 1600MHz Transfer Rate 4800MT/s 3200MT/s | 
| Bandwidth/Channel 51.2GB/s Bandwidth 102.4GB/s | Bandwidth/Channel 38.4GB/s 25.6GB/s Bandwidth 76.8GB/s 51.2GB/s | 
| TDP 15W - - - | TDP 125W - - 190W Peak | 
| Temp 100°C Max - | Temp 100°C Max - | 
| Included Cooler Not Included | Included Cooler Not Included | 
| PCIe 4.0 x4 Lanes | PCIe 5.0 x16 Lanes PCIe 4.0 x4 Lanes | 
| 10-Core M2 1280 Shaders 1398MHz 3.58 TFLOPS FP32 | UHD 770 1500MHz 256 Shaders 1500MHz 770 GFLOPS FP32 | 
| - | GNA 3.0 | 
| - 16 Cores | - - | 
| 15.8 TOPS FP16 | -  | 
| - - | - - | 
| No Cellular | No Cellular | 
 
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
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