Apple's been seeing a yearly 20% performance boost on it's big CPU cores for many years now. https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-deep-div

Apple's been seeing a yearly 20% performance boost on it's big CPU cores for many years now. https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-deep-dive/4 https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de... So while the M1x is using the same CPU and GPU cores as the M1, the M2 will get an additional performance boost from having a newer generation of core designs.