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 have also been unveiled today “to form the most advanced family of chips ever built for a personal computer”, Apple proudly boasts.
The M4 Pro has an up to 14-core CPU with 10 performance cores and four efficiency cores. Apple says it’s 1.9x faster than the CPU of the M1 Pro, and 2.1x faster than Intel’s Core Ultra 7 258V.
The GPU has up to 20 cores which enable graphics performance twice as good as that of the M4, and up to 2.4x faster than what the aforementioned Intel chip is capable of.
The M4 Pro supports up to 64GB of unified memory with 273GB/s memory bandwidth, which is 75% more than M3 Pro and twice the bandwidth of “any AI PC chip”. The M4 Pro also supports Thunderbolt 5, delivering up to 120Gb/s data speeds, more than double the throughput of Thunderbolt 4.
The M4 Max has an up to 16-core CPU, with 12 performance cores and four efficiency cores. It’s up to 2.2x faster than the CPU in the M1 Max, and 2.5x faster than the aforementioned Intel chip. The GPU goes up to 40 cores, being 1.9x faster than the M1 Max and up to 4x faster than the Intel chip Apple keeps referencing.
The M4 Max supports up to 128GB of unified memory with 546GB/s of bandwidth, which is 4x the bandwidth of “the latest AI PC chip”, whatever that may be (Apple doesn’t name an exact chip it’s comparing to here). The M4 Max’s Media engine includes two video encode engines and two ProRes accelerators. Like the M4 Pro, it also supports Thunderbolt 5.
These are all the details Apple has published. Unsurprisingly, both the M4 Pro and the M4 Max support Apple Intelligence on macOS Sequoia.
