M4 Pro chip comes with more cores and Thunderbolt 5 support

with advertisement new Macmini and with its extremely compact size, Apple also revealed: M4 Pro chipThis marks the launch of the first most powerful variant in the series. According to the manufacturer, the new SoC comes as the “world’s fastest processor” and promises plenty of multi-threaded performance.

In terms of technical specifications, the Cupertino company presents the M4 Pro Up to 14 core processor10 for performance and 4 for efficiency. This is a significant jump compared to the M3 Pro with a 6+6 core configuration and is expected to provide around a 10% performance increase for the new chip due to architectural changes.

Improvements also include integrated graphics. 20 cores. This part of the chip is also 16 Neural EnginesFabrics used to execute complex workloads focused on AI as if it were an NPU.

80% more bandwidth

Integration between the new Mac mini and M4 Pro results in RAM options of up to 64GB and 273 GB/s bandwidth. For comparison, we can say that this value is approximately 80% higher than the value seen in the previous chip with a speed of 150 GB / s.

One of the great new features of the product is Native Thunderbolt 5 support via three USB Type-C ports. This also justifies the huge increase in bandwidth because high speeds are required for the protocol to function properly.

In Brazil, the starting price of the Mac mini with the M4 Pro chip is R$ 16,999 for the version with only 10 CPU cores and 16 GPU cores. The price of the device with the fully activated M4 Pro chip is R$ 19,399 on Apple’s official website.