Apple announces M4 Max chip with up to 16 CPU cores and 40 GPU cores, delivering unprecedented performance gains and enhanced AI capabilities for professional users.

Apple today announced the M4 Max chip alongside new MacBook Pro models—its most advanced and powerful Apple silicon chip to date. Like the M4

Apple's latest chipsets, the M4 Pro and M4 Max, have taken the tech world by storm, setting new benchmarks for performance and efficiency. These

The M4 Max still looks like a good upgrade compared with the M2 Max, with up to four additional high-performance CPU cores, a higher maximum RAM capacity, and two additional GPU cores. But again, it looks like the increased memory bandwidth could drive most of the GPU performance increases.

Over the past two days, the first Geekbench 6 benchmark results have surfaced for Apple's new M4 Pro and M4 Max chips, providing some

As well as the M4 and M4 processors already announced, the MacBook Pro can be configured with the M4 Max chip which Apple has just unveiled. Like the M4 Pro, Apple describes M4 Max as second-generation 3-nanometer technology with fast performance.

Between the two new productivity-level chipsets headed to Apple's new laptops this fall, The M4 Pro and M4 Max offer two distinct levels of capability.

Apple M4 Pro takes the advanced technologies debuted in M4 and scales them up for researchers, developers, engineers, creative pros, and other users with more demanding workflows.