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Apple wrapped up a half-week of Mac announcements on Wednesday by launching the latest addition to its M series of chips. A day after announcing the M4 Pro alongside the new small Mac Mini, the company is showing off the M4 Max, which will be coming to the MacBook Pro line.
Like other members of the M4 line, the Max is built on the second-generation 3nm architecture. It’s also Apple’s second chip (after the M4 Pro) to support Thunderbolt 5 transfer speeds. That’s just over twice as fast as Thunderbolt 4. The company also claims the new neural engine is twice as fast as the M3.
The current M4 line is divided as follows:
M4:
- Up to 10 CPU cores: Up to four performance cores and up to six efficiency cores
- Up to 10-core GPU
- 16-core neural engine
M4 Pro:
- Up to 14-core CPU: Up to 10 performance cores and four efficiency cores
- GPU up to 20 cores
- 16-core neural engine
- Unified memory bandwidth of 273 GB/s
M4 Max:
- Up to 16 core CPU: Up to 12 performance cores and four efficiency cores
- GPU up to 40 cores
- 16-core neural engine
- Unified memory bandwidth of up to 546 GB/s
The new MacBook Pro with M4 Max is available for pre-order on Wednesday. Shipping begins November 8th.
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