The computing benchmark score for Apple's latest processing chip, the Apple M2, has been leaked not long ago, but it doesn't really show the graphics performance of this processing chip.
Most recently, YouTube channel Hardware Unboxed has used a MacBook Pro 13 laptop that uses this M2 processing chip to power a fairly popular computer game for the purpose of benchmarking graphics performance, namely Rise of The Tomb Raider.
The channel also uses a laptop with an AMD Ryzen 7 6800U processing chip that also has an AMD Radeon 680M graphics card. The difference in terms of offerings of these two processing chips is that the graphics chip on the M2 comes with 10 graphics cores along with 3.6 teraflop performance, while the AMD Radeon 680M, AMD’s most powerful built-in graphics chip has 12 RDNA2 cores with approximately the same total teraflop performance.
In the Rise of The Tomb Raider graphics test, the Apple M2 graphics chip showed a slightly higher total FPS than the AMD Radeon 680M in all three different graphics setting modes at 1920 × 1200 resolution.
This looks quite interesting especially since the Apple M2 processing chip is not optimized for gaming purposes as not many companies develop games for the purpose of being powered on devices like the Apple MacBook.
The Apple MacBook Pro 13 laptop with the Apple M2 chip can already be purchased in the local market now, while pre-orders for the Apple MacBook Air with the same chip will open starting tomorrow, July 8, 2022.