M4 Pro Chip Announced: Up to 14-Core CPU and 20-Core GPU, Up to 64GB of RAM, Thunderbolt 5 Support, and More - MacRumors
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M4 Pro Chip Announced: Up to 14-Core CPU and 20-Core GPU, Up to 64GB of RAM, Thunderbolt 5 Support, and More

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Apple today unveiled the M4 Pro chip, with key specifications including up to a 14-core CPU, up to a 20-core GPU, a 16-core Neural Engine, and support for up to 64GB of RAM. For the 14-core CPU, there are 10 performance cores and four efficiency cores.

M4 Pro
The previous-generation M3 Pro chip has up to a 12-core CPU and up to an 18-core GPU.

Apple says the M4 Pro chip features "the world's fastest CPU core" with "lightning-fast single-threaded performance." It also advertises the M4 Pro chip's graphics performance as being up to twice as fast as the standard M4 chip.

Apple has not provided any direct comparisons between the M4 Pro and M3 Pro chips, so we will have to wait for benchmark results for that. However, in its Mac mini video announcement, Apple says the M4 Pro chip's multi-core CPU performance is up to 1.6x faster than the M2 Pro chip and up to 1.9x faster than the M1 Pro chip.

M4 Pro vs M2 Pro
Other specifications for the M4 Pro chip include Thunderbolt 5 support with up to 120 Gb/s data transfer speeds, and an increased 273GB/s of memory bandwidth. That is a 75% increase in memory bandwidth compared to the M3 Pro chip.

The first Mac equipped with the M4 Pro chip is the new Mac mini, also announced today. Apple is also expected to introduce updated 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max chip options later this week.

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Will Co Avatar
Will Co
20 months ago
Damn it. Take my money Apple. Announce the new MBP 16, for heavens sake!
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eilavid
20 months ago
M3 Pro users like myself are getting scammed lmao. 6p+6e is such a joke combination. Glad they went for 10 performance cores on the 14 core version, instead of more useless efficiency cores. And 273 GB/s of mem bandwidth compared to the 150 GB/s downgrade from last year. TB5 also future proofs this thing even more. Man, I wish I had waited another year before I switched to Apple Silicon.
Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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dbenesch
20 months ago
M4 Pro version has Thunderbolt 5. First Mac to have it.
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bradman83
20 months ago

Thunderbolt 5 😳 Nice, that's 120Gbps.

Finally fast external drives are possible.
120 Gbps in only one direction. TB5 is an 80 in 80 out connection but to get to 120 out it reduces the in connection to 40. This mode meant more for high resolution, high refresh rate displays moreso than data. Still twice the bandwidth of Thunderbolt 4.
Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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bradman83
20 months ago
10 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores, nice. Most speculators after the Amazon leak were assuming 8p/6e, and largely the same starting prices (I think the M4 Pro version is slightly higher).
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MayaUser
20 months ago
Wow, brilliant specs at that price
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