As expected, Apple refreshed the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro and Mac Mini models. The company included the new M2 Pro and M2 Max chips in its updated products. However, the remarkable thing is that Apple used a four-year-old Intel processor in performance benchmarks.New M2 Pro and M2 Max
In the presentation video that Apple released yesterday, the new Mac Mini and MacBook Pro models with the updated M2 chip series were introduced. In these products, M2 Pro and M2 Max chips were positioned. Specifically, the M2 Pro is a chip manufactured in the 5nm manufacturing process and has managed to combine 40 billion transistors. While Apple offers two different variants of 10 and 12 cores in the M2 Pro, it is supported by up to 32 GB of combined memory. The M2 Max, on the other hand, offers 67 billion transistors, up to 96GB of unified memory and a 12-core processor.The biggest difference in both chips is on the GPU configurations. Notably, the M2 Pro comes with 19 GPU cores with a larger L2 cache that gives a 30 percent performance boost compared to the M1 Pro. The M2 Max, on the other hand, provides a 30 percent performance increase compared to the M1 Max with a massive 38 GPU cores and a larger cache. But things get a little complicated at this point.
Apple used 4-year-old Intel processor in comparisons
If you look at the details of the website where Apple shares the details of the products, you can see the release dates of the products against which the company’s new chips are compared. At this point, Apple’s MacBook Pro comparisons with Intel processors do not look very impressive. Apple rightly compared the M2 Max to the M1 Max, but the company also used a 4-year-old Intel Core i9 processor running in the MacBook Pro from 2019 in benchmarks. This Intel processor has an 8-core structure.
Intel rolled out 8th and 9th Gen Core processors into 2018 and 2019. Apple, on the other hand, included these processors in MacBook Pro models in the same years. Intel, on the other hand, has already started to release its 13th Gen processors. Apple did the same with GPU benchmarks; The company compared the M2 Max to two GPUs (RTX 6000 and GeForce-RTX 3080 Ti laptop GPUs) that didn’t even have enough graphics memory capacity to run the required task.Additionally, Apple also often referred quite a lot in its presentations to efficiency figures against competing PC components. But in this generation, the company seems to have chosen not to dwell too much on efficiency.
