Apple unveils M2 Pro and M2 Max with amazing performance!

 

During last year's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2022), Apple unveiled the Apple M2 chip as the first in a next-generation Apple Silicon chip and the successor to the M1 chip first unveiled in 2020. Today, after weeks of rumors and speculation, Apple is unveiling The M2 Pro and M2 Max chipsets, which provide amazing professional performance that rises to the new generation of Mac devices such as the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro, as well as the Mac mini, which for the first time will come with a pioneering Apple M2 Pro chip, so that the Mac Pro remains the only one among all products Apple, which is based on a central processor from Intel. Both chips represent an amazing leap not only in Apple's silicon chips, but in the hardware world in general, so if you're interested, here are all the details we know about the M2 Pro and M2 Max chips.

 

Apple unveiled the M2 Pro and M2 Max chips, designed to replace the M1 Pro and M1 Max chips that were announced in October 2021 and were used in devices such as the Mac Studio and the previous generation of MacBook Pro devices. Both chipsets feature stronger performance than the M2 core chip, which is also used in the current generation of MacBook Air laptops and the 13-inch MacBook Pro and iPad Pro.

 

Both chipsets also feature updated technology, including a Neural Engine that's 40 percent faster than the previous generation with 16 cores and capable of 15.8 trillion operations per second, while the M2 Pro chip features Apple's powerful Media Engine that accelerates H-encoding performance. 264, HEVC, and ProRes render in record time while consuming very little power, while the M2 Max features two video encoding engines for 2x faster encoding performance compared to the M2 Pro.

 

M2 Pro chip: Faster performance and better energy efficiency

Apple made the M2 Pro chip using the second generation of 5nm manufacturing accuracy and contains 40 billion transistors, about 20% more than the one in the M1 Pro chip and twice the number in the M2 chip. The chip has a speed of up to 200 gigabytes per second (Unified Memory), which combines RAM and VRAM modules in one die, which is twice the speed of the M2 chip.

 

The new chip also consists of up to 32GB of unified memory, and a 10 or 12-core CPU split into up to eight high-performance cores and four high-efficiency cores, which translates into a very powerful processor, and up to 20 percent faster. of the 10-core processor in the M1 Pro chip. Thanks to this powerful CPU, Apple claims applications like Adobe Photoshop run faster on heavy tasks, 40% faster than the M1 Pro, and 80% faster than the Intel Core i9 processor used in the MacBook Pro. And in Xcode, the M2 Pro chip can compile code, i.e. produce the final form of code, 2.5 times faster than an Intel Core i9 and up to 25% faster than an M1 Pro chip.

 

This, in addition to a 19-core GPU, which is three times that of the M1 Pro chip and contains a larger L2 cache unit, results in a significant increase in image editing and processing performance as well as in graphically demanding gaming performance equivalent to current-generation gaming performance. From consoles — according to Apple's statement, we certainly have to wait a bit until we see actual tests on the chip in the future to confirm the validity of this claim.

 

M2 Max: The World's Most Powerful SoC!

 

Apple also introduced M2 Max, the most powerful SoC chip in Apple Silicon's lineup to date, with 67 billion transistors, 10 billion more than the M1 Max chip and three times more than the M2 chip, setting M2 Max to a whole new level. The speed of the unified memory is 400 GB per second, which is twice the speed of the M2 Pro chip and 4 times the speed of the core M2, and the chip supports up to 96 GB of unified memory capacity to handle the multitasking and demanding in professional applications with amazing speed and smoothness.

 

However, the M2 Max chip is based on the capabilities of the M2 Pro chip in terms of the number of cores of the 12-core CPU, but it has a more powerful 38-core graphics processor that offers 30% better graphics performance compared to the M1 Max chip. At the same time, the M1 Max is more energy efficient — it's no surprise that Apple calls the M2 Max the most powerful and efficient professional laptop ever.

 

The performance of both chips helps the new generation 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro, also announced today by Apple, achieve the longest battery life ever in MacBook series history — up to 22 hours on the MacBook Pro with the M2 Max chip — reducing battery life. The need to connect the laptop to the charger and its energy consumption in general throughout its use. macOS Ventura has been updated to include major enhancements to Safari, Mail, Messages, and more, ready to run even more responsively and efficiently on the M2 Pro and M2 Max chips.