When the14 - inch and 16 - inch MacBook Proslanded in the beginning this week , there was some confusion on the specification sheet regarding the number of encoding locomotive on the M2 Max . Apple has clear things up — the M2 Max processor has twice the ProRes engines as the M2 Pro , just like the M1 Max .
When the page primitively go live , the M2 Max processor on the14 - inch and 16 - column inch MacBook Prowas name as having just a single video encode , ProRes encode , and ProRes decode engine despite the M1 Max having two of each . tot to the confusion was the M2 Max press waiver , which touted the chip shot ’s “ two video recording encode engines and two ProRes engines , bringing up to 2x faster video encoding than M2 Pro . ”
Apple has now clarified in the MacBook Pro ’s tech specs that the M2 Max does indeed have twice as many video encode and ProRes engines as the M1 Pro and M2 . The M1 chip does not have a video encode engine or ProRes encode and decode engine . The M2 Max also deliver more art cores and memory than the M2 Pro , with a 30- or 38 - center GPU and up to 96 GB of remembering .
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Apple ’s ProRes engine provides more often than not politic operation for high - end codecs such as H.264 that would otherwise tax the system of rules ’s imagination . When using picture production apps such as Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve , the ProRes encoders can supply muchfaster speeds , and obviously two of them mean even faster performance .
So if you ’re spending $ 3,000 or more on a MacBook Pro with an M2 Max central processing unit , remainder see to it that the medium engine will indeed be faster than the M2 Pro .
