Fans of Apple’s compact desktops have a new Mac Mini to salivate over, and the portable crowd can ‘ooh’ and ‘ah’ at the new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro units, all with cutting-edge silicon.
Apple is rolling out the hits today. Fans of the company’s compact desktops have a new Mac Mini over which to salivate, and the portable crowd can « ooh » and « ah » at the new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro units. Inside, you’ll find a new generation of Apple’s custom silicon in the form of the M2 Pro and M2 Max (above). Apple says these are the most powerful and efficient chips it has ever put in a computer, and it’s got the numbers to prove it.The new chips are an evolution of the M2 ARM silicon that Apple released last year in devices like the iPad Pro and MacBook Air . The M2 Pro is a 5nm chip with 40 billion transistors, which is 20% more than the last gen M1 Pro and double the number in the base model M2. Memory bandwidth is also doubled compared to the M2 at 200GB/s. It comes in 10- and 12-core CPU variants. Apple claims a 20% performance uplift compared to the M1 Pro. On the GPU front, the M2 Pro sports 19 cores, up from 16 in the M1 Pro.
