Eleven days ago, Apple announced the new Mac mini with the M2 and M2 Pro chips.
It will be released in Japan on February 3, but it was released in the US last week, and a YouTuber has released a teardown video of the Mac mini with the M2 chip, which has become a hot topic.
256GB M2 Mac mini SSD speed slower than M1 model
According to Cult of Mac, the YouTube channel “Brandon Geekabit” released a teardown video of the Mac mini with a 256GB M2 chip.
“Brandon Geekabit” has released a speed test video and a teardown video of the Mac mini with a 256GB M2 chip.
“Brandon Geekabit” is a pre-disassembly speed test benchmark application, and it measures the SSD speed of the chip-equipped Mac mini 256GB M2 and the chip-equipped Mac mini 256GB M1.
As a result, the SSD read and write speed of the 256GB M2 chip Mac mini is about 1,500MB/s, which is 30% to 50% slower than the read and write speed of the 256GB M1 chip Mac mini. .
When I disassembled the Mac mini with the 256GB M2 chip to find out why the SSD speed was slow, I found that the motherboard had one 256GB NAND chip.
The Mac mini with the 256GB M1 chip has two 128GB NAND chips on the motherboard.
A Mac mini with an M2 chip, which only has a single 256GB NAND chip, will have two 128GB NAND chips, because multiple NAND chips can be combined in a device in parallel for faster speeds. The processing speed of an SSD is slower than a Mac mini with an M1 chip.
The chip-based Mac mini M2 features an 8-core CPU with 4 high-performance cores and 4 high-efficiency cores, a 10-core GPU, and a 16-core Neural Engine, while the Mac mini M2 Pro which n chip-based includes. 6 high performance cores. Featuring a 10-core CPU, a 16-core GPU, and a 16-core Neural Engine with 4 high-efficiency cores.
The new Mac mini will be released on February 3rd, but is available for pre-order and will ship on February 2nd.
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