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Apple M3
8C/8T · 4.0 GHz
Released
Nov 7, 2023
CPULaptopReleased Oct 26, 2021
Apple M1 Max
10C/10T · 3.2 GHz
The M1 Max is the largest single-die chip of Apple's first-generation Mac silicon, announced in October 2021 alongside the M1 Pro for the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro and later used in the Mac Studio. It shares the M1 Pro's CPU but doubles the GPU and memory interface, and adds a second ProRes engine for video work. With 57 billion transistors it was Apple's largest chip at launch, and it was offered with a 24-core or 32-core GPU.
General
- Manufacturer
- Apple
- Model
- Apple M1 Max
- Segment
- Laptop
- Generation
- M1 family
- Codename
- —
- Architecture
- ARM64
- Microarchitecture
- Firestorm/Icestorm
- Release date
- Oct 26, 2021
- Price
Cores & clocks
- Cores / threads
- 10 cores / 10 threadsP8+E2
- Base clock
- —
- Boost clock
- 3.23 GHz
- TDP (design W)
- —
- Unlocked
- ✕ No
- L2 cache
- —
- L3 cache
- —
- Technology (nm)
- 5 nm5 nm
Platform
- Socket
- BGA (soldered SoC)
- 2-CPU (multi-socket)
- ✕ No
- Integrated GPU
- Apple GPU (32-core)
- Memory type
- LPDDR5-6400 (unified)
- Memory size
- 32 – 64 GB
- ECC memory
- —
- PCIe
- —
Instructions & AI
- Instruction extensions
- ARMv8.4-ANEONAMXFP16dotprodAESSHA3PAuth
- NPU
- 16-core Neural Engine — 11 TOPS
OS support
- macOS
- macOS
- Linux
- FedoraArch Linux
- Notes
- macOS 12 (Monterey) and later. Windows runs only inside a virtual machine such as Parallels. Asahi Linux supports the M1 generation, with Fedora Asahi Remix as the reference distribution and Arch Linux ARM also available; Ubuntu and ChromeOS are not supported. Apple does not publish base clocks or TDP figures.
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