In a somewhat quiet update, Apple on Monday announced a new graphics processing unit option for the 16-inch MacBook Pro notebook. Users can now order an AMD Radeon Pro 5600M, complete with 8GB of HBM2 memory, and 40 compute units, as a discrete processor. The new option stands as 75 percent faster than the Radeon Pro 5500M with 4GB of GDDR6 memory.
The memory for the 5600M is integrated into the 7nm 5600M and has 394 GB/s of bandwidth. In a press release from AMD, the 5600M “delivers up to 5.3 TFLOPS of single-precision (FP32) floating point performance.”
This option tacks on an extra $800 for the $2,399 model, and $700 for the $2,799 notebook.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.