Mac mini

7 chip options (M1 – M4 Pro)

M4 Generation Current

Spec M4 Pro
14c CPU / 20c GPU
M4 Pro
12c CPU / 16c GPU
M4
10c CPU / 10c GPU
Devices Mac mini Mac mini iMac
Mac mini
CPU
CPU Cores 14 12 10
Performance Cores 10 8 4
Performance Core Speed (GHz) 4.51 4.51 4.4
Efficiency Cores 4 4 6
Efficiency Core Speed (GHz) 2.85
SLC Cache (MB) 36 36 20
GPU
GPU cores 20 16 10
Execution Units 320 256 160
ALU Count 2560 2048 1280
GPU Frequency (GHz) 1578 1578 1470
TFLOPS 8.52 6.82 4.26
Ray Tracing
GPU Vendor 8th-gen Apple 8th-gen Apple 8th-gen Apple
NPU
Neural Engine cores 16 16 16
Neural Engine TOPS 38 38 38
Memory
Memory bandwidth (GB/s) 273 273 120
Memory bus width (bits) 256 256 128
Memory channels 2
Memory channel width (bits) 64
Memory type LPDDR5X-8533 LPDDR5X-8533 LPDDR5X-7500
Memory options (GB) 24
48
64
24
48
64
8
16
24
32
Media Engine
Hardware Acceleration H264
HEVC
ProRes
ProRes RAW
H264
HEVC
ProRes
ProRes RAW
H264
HEVC
ProRes
ProRes RAW
Video Decode 1 1 1
Video Encode 1 1 1
ProRes Engines 1 1 1
AV1 Decode 1 1 1
Semiconductor Tech
Release date 2024-11-08 2024-11-08 2024-05-15

M2 Generation

Spec M2 Pro
12c CPU / 19c GPU
M2 Pro
10c CPU / 16c GPU
M2
8c CPU / 10c GPU
CPU
CPU Cores 12 10 8
Performance Cores 8 6 4
Performance Core Speed (GHz) 3.5 3.5 3.5
Efficiency Cores 4 4 4
Efficiency Core Speed (GHz) 2.42 2.42 2.42
L2 Cache (MB) 36 36 16
SLC Cache (MB) 24 24 8
GPU
GPU cores 19 16 10
Execution Units 76 64 40
ALU Count 2432 2048 1280
GPU Frequency (GHz) 1398 1398 1398
TFLOPS 6.799 5.726 3.578
GPU Vendor 5th-gen Apple 5th-gen Apple 5th-gen Apple
NPU
Neural Engine cores 16 16 16
Neural Engine TOPS 15.8 15.8 15.8
Memory
Memory bandwidth (GB/s) 204.8 204.8 102.4
Memory bus width (bits) 256 256 128
Memory channels 4 4 8
Memory channel width (bits) 64 64 16
Memory type LPDDR5-6400 LPDDR5-6400 LPDDR5-6400
Memory options (GB) 16
32
16
32
8
16
24
Media Engine
Hardware Acceleration H264
HEVC
ProRes
ProRes RAW
H264
HEVC
ProRes
ProRes RAW
H264
HEVC
ProRes
ProRes RAW
Video Decode 1 1 1
Video Encode 1 1 1
ProRes Engines 1 1 1
Semiconductor Tech
Process node (nm) 5 5 5
Transistors (billion) 40 40 20
Release date 2023-01-24 2023-01-24 2022-06-24

M1 Generation

Spec M1
8c CPU / 8c GPU
CPU
CPU Cores 8
Performance Cores 4
Performance Core Speed (GHz) 3.2
Efficiency Cores 4
Efficiency Core Speed (GHz) 2.06
L2 Cache (MB) 16
SLC Cache (MB) 8
GPU
GPU cores 8
Execution Units 128
ALU Count 1024
TFLOPS 2.6
GPU Vendor 4th-gen Apple
NPU
Neural Engine cores 16
Neural Engine TOPS 11
Memory
Memory bandwidth (GB/s) 68.3
Memory bus width (bits) 128
Memory channels 8
Memory channel width (bits) 16
Memory type LPDDR4X-4266
Memory options (GB) 8
16
Media Engine
Hardware Acceleration H264
HEVC
ProRes
Semiconductor Tech
Process node (nm) 5
Transistors (billion) 16
Release date 2020-11-10