There was the Mac Mini with the M1 chip, which was cheap, but offered relatively low graphics performance. The old M1-based MacBook Pros topped out at 21 hours.Have a fixed workspace and want a Mac for productive tasks – maybe to edit photos or videos? If so, you previously had the choice between three devices.

The new MacBook Pros using the M2 Pro and M2 Max chips can last up to 22 hours on a single charge. This means that the chips can handle multiple 4K and 8K video streams using ProRes, HEVC and H.264. They also have built in video encode/decode engines and ProRes engines – one of each in the Pro, two of each in the Max. Both use 16-core Neural Engine capable of 15.8 TOPS, 40% faster than the previous generation. The GPU is twice the size with up to 38 cores, the L2 cache is even bigger.īoth the M2 Pro and M2 Max share some hardware. The CPU is the same as the 12-core version of the M2 Pro. Also, it supports up to 96GB of unified memory (4x what the M2 can handle) running at 400GB/s (twice as fast as the M2 Pro).

The Apple M2 Max chip has a whopping 67 billion transistors, three times as many as the base M2. This results in up to 20% higher CPU performance over the M1 Pro (10-core) and 30% higher GPU performance. The M2 Pro has 10 or 12 CPU cores – 6 or 8 high-performance cores plus 4 high-efficiency cores – as well as up to 19 GPU cores, plus larger L2 cache. The new chip also supports up to 32GB of unified memory with 200GB/s bandwidth. The Apple M2 Pro chipset is built on a second generation 5nm node and features 40 billion transistors, 20% more than the M1 Pro.

Apple also announced two new products built with the new chips, MacBook Pro (14” and 16”) and Mac mini, these are covered in a separate post. Today Cupertino is lifting the veil off two higher power chips, the M2 Pro and M2 Max, which pile on more cores and add support for more memory. However, the M2 was only available in one configuration – 8 CPU cores and 10 GPU cores. When Apple unveiled the M2 chipset in June of last year, it brought 18% CPU and 35% GPU performance boost compared to the original M1.

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