Apple completed its M4 chipset range by officially announcing the M4 Pro yesterday, with the M4 Max now a part of the press releases. Just like a multitude of the company’s chipsets unveiled this year, the latest one is mass-produced on TSMC’s second-generation 3nm process, delivering incredible performance and power efficiency when found in the newest 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models. Here are more details on this silicon, so let us proceed.
Apple claims that its latest M4 Max is up to 400 percent faster than the ‘latest AI PC chip,’ hinting at unrivaled performance compared to the Snapdragon X Elite
Coming straight to the specifications, the M4 Max can be configured to feature up to a 16-core CPU, with 12 of those cores focusing on performance and the remaining four designed for efficiency. As for the GPU, the top-end version can flaunt 40 cores, with Apple claiming that the M4 Max is 220 percent faster than the M1 Max in the CPU department and 250 percent faster than the latest AI PC chip. When comparing graphics performance, the M4 Max is marketed to be a whopping 190 percent faster than the M1 Max and up to an unprecedented 400 percent quicker than the latest AI PC chip.
Potential buyers of the new MacBook Pro models can configure their M4 Max machines with up to 128GB of unified RAM, with the memory delivering up to 546GB/s of bandwidth. This improvement alone means that developers can use the SoC to interact with Large Language Models with 200 billion parameters. Of course, that is not the only bandwidth improvement that we will witness because the chipset supports the Thunderbolt 5 standard with up to 120Gb/s data transfer capabilities.
Interestingly enough, Apple did not share the transistor count of the M4 Max, but we are confident that the new silicon will run circles around the M4 Pro in multi-core performance. Just a few moments ago, we reported about the estimated Geekbench 6 results of the SoC that can be paired with the latest Mac mini, with the calculated scores faster than the M3 Max and M2 Ultra. There will be a few benchmarks arriving in the coming days, so we recommend our readers remain patient, and we will be back with new figures.
