Apple Magazine - USA - Issue 531 (2021-12-31)

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will deliver unparalleled performance with
best-in-class performance per watt. The M1
Pro takes the architecture of the M1 to new
heights, with an up-to-10-core CPU with
eight high-performance cores and two high-
eiciency cores, along with an up-to-16-core
GPU, which delivers up to twice as fast GPU
performance. The M1 Pro also ofers up to
200GB/s of memory bandwidth — nearly 3x
the bandwidth of M1, and supports 32GB of
fast uniied memory. It’s designed to speed
up video worklows, with a ProRes accelerator
added to the media engine to deliver truly fast,
power-eicient video editing. It’s setting a new
standard for laptops in every genre.


The M1 Max, on the other hand, takes the most
powerful chip to even greater heights. As well
as the 10-core CPU as found on the M1 Pro, the
Max doubles the GPU with up to a massive 32


cores for up to 4x faster GPU performance than
M1. It also ofers up to 400GB/s of memory
bandwidth — 2x that of M1 Pro and nearly 6x
that of M1 — and up to 64GB of fast uniied
memory. Apple says that the M1 Max is “game-
changing for pro workloads, allowing pros to
do things that were previously unimaginable
on a notebook,” and adds that the new
MacBook Pro can now “easily work with
extreme geometry and textures in scenes that
pro PC laptops can’t even run.” The M1 Max also
ofers an enhanced media engine that features
two ProRes accelerators, allowing users to edit
30 streams of 4K ProRes video or up to seven
streams of 8K ProRes video in Final Cut Pro,
and video editors can grade color in HDR on 8K
ProRes 4444 video on battery, something that’s
never before been possible.
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