Apple has announced the M2 Pro and M2 Max, Apple’s most powerful and power-efficient chips for a pro laptop yet. The M2 Pro will deliver up to 12-core CPU and up to 19-core GPU with up to 32GB of fast unified memory, while the M2 Max utilizes this same CPU but goes a level higher with a 38-core GPU, double unified memory bandwidth and up to 96GB of unified memory.
Both chips feature a faster 16-core Neural Engine and Apple’s powerful media engine. The M2 Pro will be delivering the best-in-class performance to the Mac mini for the first time, while M2 Pro and M2 Max will take the game-changing performance and capabilities of the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro even further.
Using a second-gen version of the 5-nanometer process technology, M2 Pro packs 40 billion transistors—nearly 20% more than M1 Pro and twice as many as M2. It supports up to 32GB of low-latency unified memory and has a unified memory bandwidth of 200GB/s, which is twice as fast as M2. Compiling in Xcode is up to 2.5 times faster than on the fastest Intel-based MacBook Pro, and heavy workloads in apps like Adobe Photoshop run at lightning speed.
After weeks of speculation, these next-gen chips will be powering the new MacBook Pro and Mac Mini that were just announced today.
