Apple introduces new M4 Pro and M4 Max chips

Alongside the latest MacBook Pro, the M4 Pro and M4 Max chips have been unveiled. Along with the M4, Apple notes that these are the most advanced family of chips built for a personal computer.

The M4 Pro is available with up to a 14-Core CPU with 10 performance cores and four efficiency cores. Per Apple, it’s 1.9x faster than the CPU of the M1 Pro. It’s even 2.1x faster than Intel’s Core Ultra 7 258V.

The GPU has up to 20 cores, enabling graphics performance that’s twice as efficient as the M4 chip. It also supports up to 64GB of unified memory with a speed pf 273GB/s for bandwidth.

This is 75% more than the M3 Pro and twice what any other AI PC chip can offer in bandwidth. Lastly, the M4 Pro supports Thunderbolt 5, providing users with up to 120Gb/s data speeds.

The M4 Max has up to a 16-Core CPU with 12 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores. The chip can be 2.2x faster than the M1 Max complemented by a GPU with up to 40 cores.

The M4 Max supports up to 128GB of unified memory with 546GB/s of bandwidth. This is 4x the bandwidth of the latest AI PC chip (which Apple didn’t name).

Additionally, the M4 Max is equipped with a media engine which includes two video encoding engines and two ProRes accelerators. Similar to the M4 Pro, it supports Thunderbolt 5 as well.

The M4 Pro and M4 Max chips both support Apple Intelligence on macOS Sequoia. Its AI-powered capabilities are leveraged with the new MacBook Pro’s 16-Core Neural Engine.