Apple unveils M4 Pro and M4 Max with up to 16 CPU cores and 40 GPU cores | Infinium-tech
Today Apple has officially announced the new MacBook Pro, and it’s powered by a choice of M4, M4 Pro and M4 Max chips. The M4 Pro and M4 Max are new, and today also unveiled “the most advanced family of chips ever made for a personal computer,” Apple proudly claims.
The M4 Pro has a 14-core CPU with 10 performance cores and four efficiency cores. Apple says it’s 1.9x faster than the M1 Pro’s CPU, and 2.1x faster than Intel’s Core Ultra 7 258V.
The GPU has up to 20 cores making graphics performance twice as good as the M4 and up to 2.4 times faster than the capability of the aforementioned Intel chip.
The M4 Pro supports up to 64GB of integrated memory with 273GB/s memory bandwidth, which is 75% more than the M3 Pro and twice the bandwidth of “any AI PC chip”. The M4 Pro also supports Thunderbolt 5, which delivers data speeds up to 120Gb/s, more than double the throughput of Thunderbolt 4.
The M4 Max has a 16-core CPU, with 12 performance cores and four efficiency cores. That’s 2.2 times faster than the M1 Max’s CPU, and 2.5 times faster than the aforementioned Intel chip. The GPU goes up to 40 cores, which is 1.9x faster than the M1 Max and 4x faster than the Intel chip that Apple keeps referencing.
The M4 Max supports up to 128GB of integrated memory with 546GB/s bandwidth, which is 4 times the bandwidth of the “latest AI PC chip”, whatever that is (Apple doesn’t name the exact chip it’s referring to here.) is comparing). The media engine of the M4 Max includes two video encode engines and two ProRes accelerators. Like M4 Pro, it also supports Thunderbolt 5.
These are all the details that Apple has published. Not surprisingly, both the M4 Pro and M4 Max support Apple Intelligence on macOS Sequoia.
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