The latest Apple silicon "M1 Pro" and "M1 Max" announced. Maximum RAM is 64GB, GPU is greatly enhanced

Apple officially announced the new Apple silicon "M1 Pro" and "M1 Max" at the "Full Power" event on the 19th. These two chips are said to be "much more powerful chips" by scaling up the architecture of the M1 and made for the next-generation MacBook Pro.

Both the M1 Pro and M1 Max CPUs feature up to 8 high-performance cores and 2 high-efficiency cores. The "maximum" is because the M1 Pro has two types, 8 cores and 10 cores. All M1 chips had 8 cores (4 high-performance cores + 4 high-efficiency cores), but the Pro's lower configuration seems to have put more emphasis on high performance while maintaining the same number of cores.

The ``power saving for high CPU performance'' that was noted in the M1 chip has been carried over to the M1 Pro and M1 Max, and is 1.7 times the latest Windows laptop chip with 8 cores. In addition, it consumes 70% less power and is claimed to deliver performance that rivals the highest levels of Windows PC chips.

In addition, Apple silicon Mac adopts SoC and integrates CPU and GPU. Although it has achieved high performance and low power consumption, the inability to use a discrete (external) GPU has been seen as a bottleneck, but the M1 Pro and M1 Max are said to have been enhanced.

The M1 Pro delivers peak performance with 70% less power consumption than "Windows laptops with discrete GPU". Kataya M1 Max consumes 40% less power than "compact professional Windows laptops with high-performance discrete GPUs" and delivers even higher peak performance.

And the amount of RAM, which was limited to 16GB max on the M1, has been increased to 32GB on the M1 Pro and 64GB on the M1 Max. The memory bandwidth is also up to 200GB/s on the M1 Pro, about three times that of the M1 chip. The M1 Max is rated up to 400GB/s, which is double the Pro.

It also visualizes how such high performance benefits applications and how it compares with past Macs.

For some reason the emphasis on "how better than an Intel-based Mac" instead of the M1 Mac may be a response to Intel's "PC can do what a Mac can't" campaign.

The specifications of the M1 Pro, which was also posted on the official website, are as follows.

The specifications of the M1 Max are as follows.

Source: Apple

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