According to previous news from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is developing a Mac Pro with the M2 Extreme chip, which will be previewed later this year and launched in early 2023.
In addition, Gurman says Apple will launch a new Mac mini with the M2 and M2 Pro chips, a new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M2 Pro and M2 Max, and that the new chip specifications remain unknown.
Foreign media Macworld broke the news that Apple’s M2 series specification upgrade may be similar to the integration of the M1 series, which may be shown as follows.
In addition, Gurman says Apple will launch a new Mac mini with the M2 and M2 Pro chips, and new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros with the M2 Pro and M2 Max, with the new chip specs still unknown.
Foreign media Macworld broke the news that Apple’s M2 series specification upgrade may be similar to the integration of the M1 series, which may be shown as follows.
- M2: 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU, up to 24GB of unified memory
- M2 Pro (expected): up to 10-core CPU, up to 20-core GPU, up to 48GB of unified memory
- M2 Max (expected): up to 10-core CPU, 40-core GPU, up to 96GB unified memory
- M2 Ultra (expected): 24-core CPU, 80-core GPU, up to 192GB unified memory
- M2 Extreme (expected): 48-core CPU, 160-core GPU core, up to 384GB of unified memory
▲ Apple M1 Series
This statement differs from the previous Bloomberg revelation, which stated that Apple developed a 40-core chip for the upcoming Mac Pro.
"The redesigned Mac Pro, codenamed Jade 2C-Die and Jade 4C-Die, is planned to offer 20 or 40 CPU cores, consisting of 16 or 32 high-performance cores and 4 or 8 high-efficiency cores. These chips will also include 64-core or 128-core GPUs. the number of computing cores exceeds the 28 cores offered by today's Intel Mac Pro chips, and the higher-end GPUs will replace those now made by AMD."
However, whether it’s 40 or 48 cores, the M2 Extreme is likely to be designed for Apple’s ultra-performance Mac Pro, a long-awaited machine that is expected to be released next year, so we’ll see what happens.
