Apple has announced thenew Mac mini todayand the high - end version is the first to carry the freshly - announced M4 Pro central processing unit .
The Mac mini with an M4 Pro processor is is £ 1,399 , at least £ 300 more expensive than the top M4 ( £ 1,099 ) contour , which also describe for other improvements . Apple clearly thinks there is plenty to be pull ahead by choose for anM4 Prooption .
It ’s worth cut into into the difference of opinion between the M4 and the M4 Pro Apple Silicon offer on paper , so you ’ve get a better thought of whether it ’s deserving fling on that top - end Mac miniskirt . The finer points will play out during our testing of the several chips , for now but here ’s what Apple is determine as the central benefits of its scaled - up M4 Pro chips .
M4 Pro has more CPU cores and max RAM
In terms of sheer brute force , the M4 Pro has a big advantage . The received M4 Pro offering include 12 - core CPU with 8 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores ( but it can be pushed far , to 14 - center ) . Apple says it offer “ lightning - tight ” exclusive - threaded carrying out .
That ’s M4 maxes out with a 10 - nub mainframe ( 4 performance , 6 efficiency ) , meaning the Pro has duplicate the performance cores to wield the clayey lifting .
While the M4 offers a maximum Unified Memory offering of 32 gigabyte , while the M4 Pro can duplicate that , all the way up to 64 GB . The M4 Pro has 273GB / s memory bandwidth , while the M4 maxes out at 120GB / s retentivity bandwidth . Again , more than double .
Apple enjoin : “ With M4 Pro , it takes the advanced technologies in M4 and scales them up to harness even more demanding workload . ”
Graphics gains highly likely too
The M4 Pro has a 16 - core GPU as received ( it can be bear on to 20 - cores at the highest oddment ) , while the M4 has a 10 - gist GPU .
Apple says this equals doubly as powerful graphics performance over the M4 configuration , although both chipsets declare oneself computer hardware speed electron beam trace for gamers , which is a first for the Mac mini serial publication .
Thunderbolt 5 is here
The M4 Pro micro chip , significantly , supportsThunderbolt 5 . Apple says this enable mad data transference speeds of up to 120Gbps , which is more than threefold ( 40Gbps ) what can be achieved viaThunderbolt 4withing the M4 Mac Mini .
This also means support for more displays and expert quality display , which is quite important considering the Mac miniskirt starts with a grand total of zero screens ..
With M4 Pro Apple says you could abide : Three display , up to 6 K resolution at 60Hz over Thunderbolt or HDMI . For two display , it supports one at 6K/60Hz and a second at up to 8K/60Hz ( or 4K/240Hz ) over Thunderbolt or HDMI .
