Apple just showed off its new processor on KeyNote, the Apple M1 Pro. This is the renewal of the M1 that we saw last year, with significant improvements over the previous generation. In case the Pro version wasn’t enough, from his hand comes the M1 Max, which promises to be up to four times more powerful in GPU than the M1, with less energy consumption. We see these processors in the new 14-inch MacBook Pro and 16-inch MacBook Pro, presented right to the AirPods 3.
These are the most powerful processors in Apple’s history, with an M1 Pro that promises to be 70% more powerful than the M1. The architecture has been redesigned, the read speed tripled and it has practically twice as many transistors as the M1. Two real monsters to lead on PC.
Up to four times more power in the new M1 Pro and M1 Max
The M1 Pro is up to 70% more powerful in CPU with respect to M1. It has 33.7 billion transistors, more than double that of its predecessor. The data they have given in multicore indicate that neither of the two processors has a rival right now, neither in power nor in consumption.
Manufactured in a five-nanometer process, it has support for 32 GB of RAM, 10-core CPU and 16 GPU. Its bandwidth is up to 200GB / s and it is a proposal far above the M1 we saw last year.
The M1 Max raises its transistors well above the M1 Pro, with the same CPU, but a GPU in this case with 32 cores. Too has twice the bandwidth capacity, as well as support for up to four external monitors at the same time.
The new M1 Pro and M1 Max annihilate the competition in CPU, GPU and power consumption. Also, the neural motor is better than ever
Apple promises that, at full power, its M1 Pro and M1 Max are up to 1.7 times better in performance compared to the most powerful chip in notebook PC. In the same way, they exceed this performance by consuming 70% less, a spectacular figure.
Such is this efficiency in consumption that is promised a consumption of up to 100 watts less compared to the competition in high-end, so energy efficiency is once again the main pillar, along with power, of these new M1 Pro and M1 Max chips.
In addition, both processors arrive with a new 16-core neural motor, which enables faster on-device machine learning and improved camera performance, a new display engine for controlling external displays, and higher bandwidth Thunderbolt 4 controllers.
Such are the capabilities at the AI level that Macs that incorporate these chips will have a sharpness never seen in the front camera, since neural motor uses computational video to improve image quality, get sharper and improve skin treatment, a processing similar to that found in an iPhone camera.