

If not, the M1 Pro should be plenty powerful. If having the maximum GPU power for your workflow is a priority (including support for 4 external displays vs 2), you’ll want to upgrade to the M1 Max.

But that’s supercharged with the M1 Max with double the ProRes encode and decode engines and double the video encode engines. Overall, here’s a closer look at what you get with the M1 Pro and M1 Max:īoth the M1 Pro and M1 Max feature media engines to offer hardware-accelerated H.264, HEVC, ProRes, and ProRes RAW support. And the M1 Pro has 200GB/s memory bandwidth (still double the 100GB/s on the M2 chip).Īpple hasn’t shared detailed performance differences by percentage between the M1 Pro/Max and the M2 but even though the latter is newer, the M1 Pro/Max remain considerably more capable.īeyond that, Apple says the M1 Max offers 4x faster GPU performance than the M1 and comes with an incredible 400GB/s memory bandwidth which is 4x greater than the M2.īoth the M1 Pro and M1 Max feature up to 10-core CPUs made up of 8 performance cores and 2 efficiency cores (base model 14-inch with M1 Pro has an 8-core CPU).

There’s a lot to take in but for starters, Apple says the M1 Pro offers 70% faster performance than the M1 and 2x faster GPU performance than the M1.
