Apple M6

Apple’s first 2 nm Mac chip, with a Dual 16-core Neural Engine and up to 170GB/s of memory bandwidth, now shipping in the MacBook Pro and iMac.

Silicon from Apple

10 chips on record, newest first.

  1. 2026

    Apple A20 Pro

    2nm Dual 16-core Neural Engine (32 cores total)

    2x the compute power to run on-device AI models

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  2. 2026

    Apple M6

    2nm Dual 16-core Neural Engine

    up to 2x the peak compute over previous generations (Neural Engine)

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  3. 2025

    Apple A19 Pro

    Not stated by Apple 16-core Neural Engine plus per-GPU-core Neural Accelerators

    Up to 3x the peak GPU compute over the previous generation (a GPU figure, not a Neural Engine one)))

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  4. 2025

    Apple A19

    Third-generation 3nm Neural Engine plus per-GPU-core Neural Accelerators

    No throughput figure published

    None published
  5. 2024

    Apple A18 Pro

    Second-generation 3nm 16-core Neural Engine

    17 per cent increase in total system memory bandwidth

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  6. 2024

    Apple A18

    Second-generation 3nm 16-core Neural Engine

    Runs machine learning models up to 2x faster than A16 Bionic

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  7. 2023

    Apple A17 Pro

    3nm 16-core Neural Engine

    Neural Engine up to 2x faster

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  8. 2022

    Apple A16 Bionic

    Not stated by Apple 16-core Neural Engine

    Nearly 17 trillion operations per second

    Absolute
  9. 2021

    Apple A15 Bionic

    5nm 16-core Neural Engine

    15.8 trillion operations per second

    Absolute
  10. 2020

    Apple A14 Bionic

    5nm 16-core Neural Engine

    11 trillion operations per second

    Absolute

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