Apple’s professional Mac Pro will feature the M2 Extreme chipset

[AI요약] Apple plans to convert its top-tier Mac products from the current Intel-based ones to Apple’s silicon-based ones. Apple hasn’t updated the Mac Pro since 2019. The new M2 Mac Pro is expected to feature up to a 48-core M2 Extreme chipset.

Some information about the Mac pro M2 model, Apple’s flagship professional Mac product, has been revealed. The Mac Pro is Apple’s top-of-the-line desktop lineup with work-class performance. Currently, Apple silicon is not applied and an Intel Xeon processor is used.

On the 3rd (local time), Apple specialist media, Nine to Five Mac, reported that Apple is currently preparing a new Mac Pro line based on the latest M2 chipset.

The Mac Pro series has not been updated since 2019 and has an Intel Xeon W processor. After the development of the M1 chipset, Apple planned a new Mac Pro with the M1 Pro or Ultra chipset, but so far it has not the release of a new Mac Pro based on Apple’s silicon. The only product that hasn’t switched to Apple silicon is the Mac Pro.

According to Nine to Five Mac, the new Mac Pro is expected to have the M2 Extreme chipset, which improves the performance of the M2 chipset. It is a chipset with higher performance than the M2 Pro and M2 Max chipsets which are scheduled to be released at the end of this year.

If the current M2 chipset has a basic 8-core CPU with a 10-core GPU and a maximum of 24GB of RAM, the M2 Pro will adopt a maximum of 10-core CPU, a maximum of 20-core GPU, and a maximum of 48GB of RAM . Here, the M2 Max is expected to have settable performance with up to a 10-core CPU, 40-core GPU, and up to 96GB of RAM, and the M2 Extreme with a 24-48-core, 160-core CPU GPU core, and up to 384GB of RAM.

Bloomberg also predicted that high-performance chipsets with up to 40 or more CPU cores will be adopted for M2-based Mac Pro products. The M2 Extreme chipset will be manufactured based on TSMC’s 3nm process. However, no specific release date was mentioned.