The M4 Max has achieved a new milestone as it is the first Apple Silicon without the ‘Ultra’ moniker to exceed the 500GB/s memory bandwidth threshold
The M4 trio was completed yesterday after Apple officially announced the M4 Max, which can be configured with up to a 16-core CPU and a 40-core GPU. Of course, for those that require an abnormal amount of memory for running Large Language Models, the new chipset can also be configured with up to 128GB of unified RAM, which Apple claims has a bandwidth of 546GB/s. This is an incredible feat because it is the first time that a non-Ultra variant of the company’s custom chipset lineup has crossed half a terabyte of memory bandwidth.The M1 Ultra and M2 Ultra continue to be faster than the M4 Max in memory bandwidth, as both Apple Silicon can touch 800GB/s
Just yesterday, it was revealed that the M4 Pro became the fastest chipset that Apple has ever launched, as it not only beat the M3 Max from last year, but also the M2 Ultra.
