Apple's M1 Pro and M1 Max deliver new levels of power for Mac.
After months of rumors and speculation, Apple today officially unveiled its latest Apple silicon in the form of the M1 Pro and M1 Max chips.
Found in its new 2021 MacBook Pro models, the updated chips are more performant than last year's M1 chip and open up new possibilities for the Mac lineup.
What is the M1 Pro chip?
Building on the power and efficiency gains of last year's M1 chip, Apple is bringing its next-generation chip to new Mac models in the form of the M1 Pro and M1 Max chips.
Though the number has remained the same, both chips represent a significant jump in performance that will please pro customers whose needs weren't quite met by M1.
The new M1 Pro chip has double the memory bandwidth at 200 GB/s and three times the performance of the M1 chip. M1 Pro is based on a 5nm architecture as well with 22.7 billion transistors, more than double that of the M1
It features a 10-core CPU, including eight high-performance cores, for 70% faster performance than M1. On the GPU side, M1 Pro offers a 16-core GPU, eight more than M1, for 2x faster graphics. With it, you'll be able to edit multiple instances of both 4K and 8K video.
Its custom package supports up to 32GB of memory, double that of the M1 chip. The new chip also features a 16-core GPU which is two times faster than the M1.
What is the M1 Max chip?
Apple didn't stop at the M1 Pro, continuing to pump the power upward with the M1 Max offering twice the power.
The M1 Max chip features 57 billion transistors and doubles the memory interface of the M1 Pro with bandwidth of 400 Gb/s. It features the same 10-core CPU as the M1 Pro with a 32-core GPU. It features up to 64GB of RAM and has two ProRes accelerators.
How do the M1 Pro M1 Max chips differ from the M1 chip?
Until we can test them for ourselves, it's difficult to say how the M1 Pro and M1 Max will fare in real-world testing but, for comparison's sake, we know that Apple's M1 chip feels pretty snappy while offering eight total CPU cores. Four of those are high-performance and four are energy-efficient ones.
M1 also tops out at 16GB of RAM which, for many pro use cases, is not enough. With support for up to 64GB of RAM, Apple's latest devices will be the best MacBooks for many more pro users.
Which devices run Apple's M1 Pro and M1 Max chips?
Since the M1 Pro and M1 Max chips are Apple's latest silicon upgrades, they are available in its latest MacBook Pro models.
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