Downcodes editor reports: Apple grandly launched its latest M4 series of chips at this week’s press conference and updated its MacBook Pro and Mac mini series. The M4Pro and M4Max chips have outstanding performance in artificial intelligence computing capabilities. Apple claims that their performance far exceeds that of competitors, especially in processing artificial intelligence tasks, showing significant advantages. This update not only reflects Apple’s continued investment in high-performance computing, but also heralds its ambitions in the personal computer market. Next, we will conduct an in-depth analysis of the performance characteristics of the M4 series chips and the improvements of the new Mac products.
This week, Apple launched its latest M4 series of chips at a conference, marking its strong performance in the PC market. Apple claims that devices equipped with M4Pro and M4Max far outperform competing AI PC chips in performance, especially in terms of artificial intelligence task processing.
The M4Pro chip provides up to 14 CPU cores, 10 of which are high-performance cores, 4 of which are high-efficiency cores, and is also equipped with 20 GPU cores. Apple says that M4Pro is 2.1 times faster than Intel's Core Ultra7258V in AI computing power, while M4Max performs even better, claiming to achieve a 4x performance advantage on AI workloads.
Although Apple did not elaborate on the specific workloads mentioned, it is widely speculated that Apple is mainly focused on bandwidth-constrained tasks such as large language models (LLMs). M4Pro supports up to 64GB of LPDDR memory with a bandwidth of up to 273GB/s, while M4Max supports 128GB of memory with a bandwidth of 546GB/s. By comparison, Intel's Core Ultra chips can only support up to 32GB of memory and have a bandwidth of 132GB/s, which also lends support to the Apple comparison.
In addition to the strong performance of AI computing, M4Pro and M4Max also have significant improvements in other aspects. The chips use TSMC's second-generation 3nm process technology, and Apple claims its CPU cores lead the industry in single-thread performance. The graphics processing capabilities of the M4 series have also been enhanced. Apple said that ray tracing performance has been improved by two times compared with the previous generation.
In terms of new product launches, Apple updated its MacBook Pro and Mac mini series. The new MacBook Pro is similar in appearance to its predecessor, but its internal configuration has been comprehensively upgraded, including higher display brightness and stronger multi-monitor support. The new Mac mini has made design improvements while maintaining its compact size, but has reduced the number of interfaces.
The new M4 chip and updated Mac products released by Apple this time demonstrate its continued innovation and efforts in the field of high-performance computing.
All in all, the release of Apple's M4 series chips and their application in the Mac product line demonstrate Apple's leading position and continuous innovation capabilities in the field of high-performance computing. The powerful AI performance of the M4 chip and optimized Mac products will bring users a more excellent computing experience. We look forward to more breakthroughs from Apple in this field in the future.