With the launch of the latest MacBook Pro, Apple has introduced the M4 Pro and M4 Max chips. According to Apple, these are the most advanced chips they’ve ever designed for personal computers.
The M4 Pro comes packed with an impressive 14-core CPU, featuring 10 performance cores and four efficiency cores. Apple claims it’s 1.9 times faster than the M1 Pro’s CPU and boasts a remarkable 2.1 times the speed of Intel’s Core Ultra 7 258V.
The GPU in the M4 Pro features up to 20 cores, delivering graphics performance that’s twice as efficient as the M4 chip. It also supports up to 64GB of unified memory, with a lightning-fast bandwidth of 273GB/s.
This is a remarkable 75% increase over the M3 Pro and offers double the bandwidth of any other AI PC chip on the market. Plus, the M4 Pro supports Thunderbolt 5, giving users data speeds of up to 120Gb/s.
The M4 Max features a powerful 16-core CPU, with 12 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores. It can be 2.2 times faster than the M1 Max and is paired with a GPU that boasts up to 40 cores for even better performance.
The M4 Max can handle up to 128GB of unified memory, offering an impressive 546GB/s of bandwidth—four times more than the latest AI PC chip (which Apple chose not to name).
It also comes with a media engine that features two video encoding engines and two ProRes accelerators. Like the M4 Pro, it supports Thunderbolt 5 as well.
Both the M4 Pro and M4 Max chips work seamlessly with Apple Intelligence on macOS Sequoia, leveraging the new MacBook Pro’s 16-core Neural Engine to boost their AI-powered capabilities.
