On January 18, whistleblower Dylandkt revealed some news about the new generation of Apple's Mac Pro, which will be the last Mac product to switch to Apple's self-developed chip, and its processor is not the M2 series rumored by the outside world, but is still an extension of the M1 series, with much more cores than M1 Max.
Xiao Lei learned that this new chip will be named "M1 Quadra", equipped with up to 40 CPU cores and 128 GPU cores, far more than the 28-core Intel processor (Xeon W-3275M) on the current Mac Pro, even the dual version of "M1 Max Duo" only has 20 core CPU + 64 core GPU.
It is worth mentioning that "Quadra" has 4 meanings, according to the previous revelations, the top Mac Pro will be equipped with 4 M1 Max processors. In other words, the "M1 Quadra" is likely to be an extension of the four M1 Max pieced together. The advantage of multi-chip packaging is that the cost is low and the performance improvement is obvious, and the disadvantage is naturally that the area is large. Fortunately, the Mac Pro itself has enough internal space, and the performance is not enough to spell two more.
In fact, ordinary video editing needs can actually be met by M1 Pro and M1 Max, coupled with the production software optimized by developers for Apple chips, there is generally no lack of performance, and it may be that senior special effects artists and professional film post-producers will use the M1 Max of double or quad. In addition, Apple's self-developed chip performance is strong, it is still not friendly enough for the game party, and those who want to play games should consider other computers.
Of course, the M2 series that netizens are looking forward to has not been cut, and the 14-inch MacBook Pro released in the second half of 2022 will be equipped with the chip, in addition to the 10-core GPU, the DETAILS of the CPU, NPU and so on have not been disclosed. Xiao Lei guessed that the M2 chip should be a benchmark M1, a slight upgrade in performance, and make up for shortcomings such as memory limitations. It is reported that the M2 processor will be released during the WWDC show in June.
As for the extended version of M2, the parameters of M2 Max are also quite scary, the specifications are similar to M1 Quadra, all of which are 40-core CPU + 128-core GPU, if you fight on this basis, how strong the performance is, you can't imagine.
If there is no accident, the MacBook Pro 2022 will not have much appearance changes, which means that the Apple notebook products in the next few years will not be able to go with Liu Haiping. Xiao Lei believes that considering replacing the macBook Pro's small partner, it is better to wait for a wave of 2021 price reductions.