Benchmark
As was to be expected, the specialized blogAnandTechtook advantage of his audience to carry out an informed test of the M1 Pro and the M1 Max, just a few days after havingstudied the case of the A15 on iPhone 13.
It appears that the performance of the two components is indeed better than ever, well beyond their previous generation. The M1 Pro, for example, hits a maximum clock speed of 3.23 GHz depending on which cores are enabled. Remember that the part here relies on a sixteen-core graphics card and a proprietary Neural Engine artificial intelligence engine.
The M1 Max also does very well with fifty-seven billion transistors under the hood. The GPU thus ran at 1296 MHz during the evaluation ofAnandTech, with 408 GB per second of bandwidth. Just that.
To see the full details of the statistics (technical data), it's right here.
Opinion des experts
Steven Sinofsky
The former boss of Windowsthinkfor its part that Apple’s M1 Pro and M1 Max chips simply mark progress “major[e]” in the IT world. For him, it is not “that the beginning” of a long adventure of success and Cupertino should take the opportunity to continue to grab market share from Microsoft.
Jean-Louis Gassée
Renewing its confidence in ARM technology on Mac,that he had already been able to evoke in the past, the former boss of Apple in France is also leaning towards a serious success. For him, the M1 Pro and the M1 Max are not just a simple update of the M1 which equips the twenty-four-inch iMac but indeed “incredibly muscular engines“. The computer scientist particularly emphasizeson his blogthat the M1 Pro goes to 33.7 billion transistors compared to 16 for the M1.
Alder Lake is ahead
Unfortunately, as statedSeeking Alpha, the M1 Max processor would remain far behind the Alder Lake CPU that Intel is currently developing. However, this is not yet available on the market, which allows for nuance. The site goes even further, and thinks that the GPU cannot do better than the manufacturer Nvidia either.
The media nevertheless specifies that this is above all an investor's vision, therefore in the long term, facing the shadow of the recent problems of the founder TSMC. This is the Taiwanese subcontractor assembling Apple's chips, the victim of serious delays.
Forest MacBook Pro M1 Pro
