Today Apple has officially announced the new MacBook Proand is powered by a choice of M4, M4 Pro and M4 Max chips. The M4 Pro and M4 Max are new, and were also unveiled today “to form the most advanced family of chips ever built for a personal computer,” Apple proudly boasts.
The M4 Pro has a CPU with up to 14 cores, 10 performance cores and four efficiency cores. Apple says it’s 1.9x faster than the M1 Pro’s CPU, and 2.1x faster than Intel’s Core Ultra 7 258V.
The GPU has up to 20 cores that enable graphics performance that is twice as good as the M4, and up to 2.4x faster than what the aforementioned Intel chip is capable of.
The M4 Pro supports up to 64 GB of unified memory with a memory bandwidth of 273 GB/s, which is 75% more than M3 Pro and twice the bandwidth of “any AI PC chip”. The M4 Pro also supports Thunderbolt 5 and delivers data speeds of up to 120 Gb/s, which is more than double the throughput of Thunderbolt 4.
The M4 Max has a CPU up to 16 cores, with 12 performance cores and four efficiency cores. It is 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, is 1.9x faster than the M1 Max and up to 4x faster than the Intel chip that Apple keeps referring to.
The M4 Max supports up to 128 GB of unified memory with 546 GB/s bandwidth, which is four times the bandwidth of “the latest AI PC chip,” whatever that is (Apple isn’t naming the exact chip it’s being compared to here) . The M4 Max’s media engine includes two video encoding engines and two ProRes accelerators. Like the M4 Pro, it also supports Thunderbolt 5.
These are all the details that Apple has published. Unsurprisingly, both the M4 Pro and M4 Max support Apple Intelligence on macOS Sequoia.