Apple today unveiled its new M2 Pro and M2 Max next-generation Apple Silicon chips for its 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pro models , plus the M2 and M2 Pro for the Mac mini .
Here are some slides from Apple’s 19-minute keynote today that was uploaded to its YouTube channel , which tells you everything you need to know about today’s announcements.
The M2 chip is not new but Apple gave a summary of M2 for the Mac mini anyways:
Up to 24GB LPDDR5 memory
High-performance media engine
40% faster Neural Engine
Up to 15.8 trillion operations per second; 16-core Neural Engine
Second-generation 5nm technology
8-core CPU
Up to 10-core GPU
ProRes encode and decode
6K external display support
18% faster CPU
35% faster GPU
Over 20 billion transistors
Industry-leading performance per watt
50% more memory bandwidth
100GB/s memory bandwidth
M2 Mac mini also has the following highlights according to Apple:
Wi-Fi 6E
10Gb Ethernet option
Bluetooth 5.3
Hardware-accelerated ProRes encode and decode
Supports up to 3 displays
M2 or M2 Pro options
Up to 8K display with HDMI
Up to 32GB unified memory
Up to 8TB storage
M2 model up to 5x faster than best-selling Windows desktop
M2 Pro model up to 14x faster than the fastest Intel-based Mac mini
M2 Pro 16-inch MacBook Pro advantages:
Photoshop image processing is 40% faster than M1 Pro
Photoshop image processing is 80% faster than Intel Core i9
M2 Pro in the MacBook Pro 16-inch when it comes to code compiling in Xcode:
25% faster than M1 Pro
2.5x faster than the Intel Core i9
Here, we can see how the M2 Max compares in size to the M2 and M1 Max:
M2 Max has the following highlights according to Apple:
Thunderbolt 4
Up to 20% faster CPU
Up to 30% faster GPU
Industry-leading performance per watt
Up to 96GB LPDDR5
Over 67 billion transistors (10 billion more than M1 Max)
12-core CPU
Up to 38-core GPU
16-core Neural Engine; 15.8 trillion ops/s
40% faster Neural Engine
400GB/s memory bandwidth
High-performance media engine with ProRes
Second-generation 5nm technology
The new 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pro feature the following:
HDMI
Thunderbolt 4
SDXC
Up to 22 hours battery life
Liquid Retina display XDR
Studio-quality mics
Up to 6x faster effects rendering than the fastest Intel-based MacBook Pro
M2 Pro or M2 Max options
Up to 2x faster code compiling than the fastest Intel-based MacBook Pro
Up to 96GB unified memory
Up to 8TB storage
Wi-Fi 6E
Supports up to four external displays
Up to 8K display with HDMI
ProRes encode and decode
For M2 Pro, M2 Max and M2 Mac mini Canadian pricing, check out the links below:
You can click here to order your new M2 MacBook Pro or Mac mini today , with delivery set for Tuesday, January 24, 2023.
