Apple launches iMac with M6 chip for faster AI performance

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 27 Oct, 21:28 · Archive

Apple has launched a new iMac powered by its M6 processor, offering significant improvements in AI capabilities and general performance.

Apple has released a new iMac desktop computer powered by its M6 processor, following recent launches of the M6 in the Mac mini and Mac Studio. The chip features up to 12 CPU cores, 12 GPU cores and a Dual 16-core Neural Engine, alongside 170GB/s memory bandwidth.

Apple claims the iMac M6 is twice as fast for graphics performance compared to the M4 model, accelerating tasks such as photo editing and gaming. For productivity work like Microsoft Excel, the company says it is up to 50 per cent faster than the M4 and 2.5 times faster than the M1 model. It also delivers double the gaming performance for ray tracing.

The iMac M6 shows even more pronounced speed gains in artificial intelligence tasks, with up to five times faster on-device AI performance for prompt processing compared to the M4, or twelve times the speed of the M1 model. Models start with 16GB of unified memory, with options for 24GB and 32GB.

How it is being reported

• Apple takes powerful M6 chip to the MacBook Pro, iMac6th-gen M-series silicon promises more cores, faster memory, a fatter NPU, and better connectivity, now in more form factorsThe Register · 27 Oct, 17:47
• Apple's iMac with M6 arrives promising a 'huge leap' in AI performanceIt offers more cores and more performance per core than the iMac M5.Engadget · 27 Oct, 13:25

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