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CPUDesktopReleased Sep 22, 2026

Apple M6

12C/12T

Apple M6 is the base chip of Apple's sixth-generation M-series and its first chip built on a 2 nm process. It was announced on August 25, 2026 with the new Mac mini and went on sale on September 22, 2026. Its 12-core CPU adds two cores over M5 and splits into two super cores, four performance cores and six efficiency cores, giving up to 1.2x the multithreaded performance of M5. The 12-core GPU has a Neural Accelerator in every core, and a dual 16-core Neural Engine doubles peak Neural Engine compute over previous generations. Unified memory bandwidth reaches 170 GB/s.

General

Manufacturer
Apple
Model
Apple M6
Segment
Desktop
Generation
M6 family
Codename
—
Architecture
ARM64
Microarchitecture
—
Release date
Sep 22, 2026
Price
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Cores & clocks

Cores / threads
12 cores / 12 threadsS2+P4+E6
Base clock
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Boost clock
—
TDP (design W)
—
Unlocked
✕ No
L2 cache
—
L3 cache
—
Technology (nm)
2 nm
TSMC 2 nm

Platform

Socket
BGA (soldered SoC)
2-CPU (multi-socket)
✕ No
Integrated GPU
Apple GPU (12-core)
Memory type
Unified memory
Memory size
16 – 32 GB
ECC memory
✕ No
PCIe
—

Instructions & AI

Instruction extensions
—
NPU
Dual 16-core Neural Engine

OS support

macOS
macOS
Notes
macOS 27 and later. Windows runs only inside a virtual machine such as Parallels. Asahi Linux does not support the M3 generation or later, so no mainstream Linux distribution runs natively; ChromeOS is not supported. Apple does not publish clock speeds or TDP figures.

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