Apple wrapped up a half week of Mac announcements Wednesday by debuting the latest addition to the M-series of chips. A day after announcing the M4 Pro alongside the tiny new Mac mini, the company is showcasing the M4 Max, which is coming to the MacBook Pro line.
Like the other members of the M4 line, the Max is built atop second-gen 3-nanometer architecture. It’s also Apple’s second chip (after the M4 Pro) to support Thunderbolt 5 transfer speeds. Those are a bit more than twice as fast as Thunderbolt 4. The company also claims that the new Neural Engine doubles the speed of the M3.
The current M4 line breaks down as follows:
M4:
- Up to 10-core CPU: 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
- Up to 20-core GPU
- 16-core Neural Engine
- 273GB/s unified memory bandwidth
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M4 Max:
- Up to 16-core CPU: Up to 12 performance cores and four efficiency cores
- Up to 40-core GPU
- 16-core Neural Engine
- Up to 546GB/s unified memory bandwidth
The new MacBook Pro with M4 Max is up for preorder on Wednesday. It starts shipping November 8.
