M4 maturity
Remarkably, in only four years,
M-series chips have reached maturity.
One indicator is how well-scaled their performance is across the M4 family. There are no gaps from the base version with eight or 10 cores, through the 14-core Pro to the Max with 16. In M1 and M2, Pro and Max versions weren’t sufficiently distinct, while in M3 their difference was too great. This is also reflected in the versatility of those cores, where M4 Efficiency cores running at maximum frequency come close to matching the throughput of Performance cores, without sacrificing their energy economy.