Apple M2 Max (30-GPU)
Benchmarks & Specs

The Apple M2 Max (30 GPU) was released in the first quarter of 2023 and is based on the second generation of the Apple-developed M series. The processor is manufactured with a structure width of 5 nanometers and is based on a chiplet chip design. It has a 36.00 megabyte level 3 cache and supports the 64-bit ISA instruction set ARMv8-A64.

Along with the processor, a new Apple Mac Studio, a 14-inch and a 16-inch MacBook Pro were presented. Alternatively, all 3 devices can also be purchased with the Apple M2 Max (38 GPU).

The Apple M2 Max (30 GPU) has a total of 12 processor cores made up of 8 performance cores codenamed Avalanche and 4 efficiency cores codenamed Blizzard. The 8 performance cores clock at up to 3.50 gigahertz and the 4 efficiency cores at up to 2.80 gigahertz. Hyperthreading is not supported by the Apple CPU and Apple does not intend to overclock the processor.

Furthermore, the Apple Neural Engine, which is equipped with 16 cores, is integrated in the Apple M2 Max (30 GPU). The Apple Neural Engine is responsible for the hardware support of AI content.

The internal graphics unit in the Apple M2 Max (30 GPU) is equipped with 30 graphics cores and clocks at up to 1.40 gigahertz. 480 execution units with a total of 3840 shader units are used, with which the graphics unit achieves an FP32 computing power of a very strong 10.65 TerraFLOPS. This puts it slightly above an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 and roughly on par with an AMD Radeon RX 6600.

The Apple M2 Max (30 GPU) is only manufactured with a permanently installed working memory. The processor can be purchased with up to 96 gigabytes of LPDDR5-6400 RAM. With its 4 memory channels, the working memory in the Apple M2 Max (30 GPU) achieves a maximum memory bandwidth of 409.6 GB/s.

• High integrated graphics performance
• Excellent AI performance
• Strong Multi-Core CPU performance
• High memory bandwidth