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Apple announces updated Mac mini, here’s everything new
Apple today announced the first Mac mini update in nearly two years. The new Mac mini keeps the same compact design, but delivers a major performance boost with the new M6 and M5 Pro configurations.
The new Mac mini lineup is available to pre-order today. Head below for all the details.
The previous generation Mac mini was powered by the M4 and M4 Pro chips. Apple has taken a different strategy this time, opting to use the all-new M6 chip for the base configuration. The next tier, meanwhile, is powered by the M5 Pro, which first debuted in the MacBook Pro earlier this year.
The M6 chip in Mac mini is Apple’s first 2nm processor. It features a 12-core CPU, which is two more cores than M4 and M5. Apple touts that it offers “the world’s fastest single-threaded performance.”
M6 is Apple’s first chip to use all three of its CPU core types: 2 super cores, 4 performance cores, and 6 efficiency cores. Super cores prioritize maximum single-threaded performance, performance cores are optimized for multithreaded workloads, and efficiency cores handle lighter and background tasks
Apple says that combination delivers up to 40% faster multithreaded performance than M4.
You get a 12-core GPU, which is also two more cores than before. Apple is also bringing its Neural Accelerators to the base Mac mini for the first time, resulting in up to 4x faster AI performance and 2x faster graphics than M4.
M6 also has the new dual 16-core Neural Engine, which Apple says is up to 2x faster than the previous generation.
The M6 Mac mini starts with 16GB of unified memory and is configurable up to 32GB. It also offers faster memory bandwidth at 170GB/s, up from 153GB/s on the M5 chip and 120GB/s on the M4.
Here are some performance statistics for Mac mini with M6 shared by Apple: