M4 Max and M4 Ultra chips Apple already introduced the M4 Max chip in the new MacBook Pro, and it’s currently one of the fastest chips on the market.

The new machine is expected to be equipped with the M4 Max chip that we first saw in the 2024 MacBook Pro models, but Apple apparently does not have an M4 Ultra chip ready to go.

Apple's new Mac Studio desktops come with the M4 Max or the M3 Ultra. Credit: Apple The high-end Mac Studio is a bit of a curveball.

According to Apple, the Mac Studio with M4 Max offers 1.6x faster image processing in Adobe Photoshop compared to the Mac Studio with M1 Max, and 2.1x faster code compilation in Xcode.

Apple updates Mac Studio with M4 Max and M3 Ultra chips, delivering record-breaking performance for creators and developers. Find out more.

With this new Mac Studio, we’re delivering even more extreme performance with M4 Max and M3 Ultra, support for half a terabyte of unified memory, up to 16TB of superfast storage, and Thunderbolt 5 ...