Apple Announces M4 Max Chip: Up to 16-Core CPU, Up to 40-Core GPU, Up to 128GB of RAM, and MoreApple
today announced the M4 Max chip alongside
new MacBook Pro models—its most advanced and powerful Apple silicon chip to date.
Like the M4 chip introduced in the
iPad Pro and the M4 Pro chip
unveiled yesterday in the redesigned
Mac mini, the M4 Max chips are fabricated with TSMC's enhanced
3nm (N3E) process. Apple's senior vice president of Hardware Technologies Johny Srouji said:
Apple silicon has taken the Mac to unprecedented heights, and the rapid pace of innovation continues with M4 Pro and M4 Max. With the world's fastest CPU core, immensely more powerful GPUs, and the fastest Neural Engine ever, the power-efficient performance and capabilities of the M4 family extend its lead as the most advanced lineup of chips in the industry.
The M4 Max's 16-core CPU contains 12 performance cores and four efficiency cores, making it 2.2x faster than the
M1 Max. The GPU contains up to 40 cores for performance up to 1.9x faster than the ‌M1 Max‌. The M4 Max supports up to 128GB of unified memory with up to 546GB/s of memory bandwidth. The chip also contains an enhanced Media Engine with two video encode engines and two ProRes accelerators. Like the M4 Pro chip, the M4 Max supports Thunderbolt 5 with up to 120Gb/s data transfer capability.
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Apple also today
drew attention to the M4 and M4 Pro chip, with the M4 Max completing the new chip lineup. Apple's new
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