[FireBeyond]

Yeah, I mean, there are a bunch of benchmarks and discussions that show that in various configurations, the M2 chip is actually slower than the M1.

Gruber, though, gleefully repeats that "Apple says it's faster".

[Tagbert]

that is a pretty broad statement that is not supported by most benchmarks. The only one I know about is the SSD speed on the base 256GB SSD. Beyond that, the M2 processor has been faster than the M1 in every test that I’ve seen. Even when throttling, the M2 is still faster than the M1 which throttled in similar situations. Perhaps there are some very specific scenarios, but how representative are those of actual scenarios?

[FireBeyond]

Benchmarks are like you say - until you hit thermal throttling, which multiple reviewers have complained about:

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/m2-macbook-air-revie...