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When compared to the Mac mini with Intel Core i7,3 Mac mini with M2 offers: • Up to 22x faster machine learning (ML) image upscaling performance in Pixelmator Pro. • 9.8x faster complex timeline rendering in Final Cut Pro. When compared to the previous-generation Mac mini with M1,1 Mac mini with M2 delivers: • Up to 2.4x faster ProRes transcode in Final Cut Pro. • Up to 50 percent faster filter and function performance in Adobe Photoshop. • Up to 35 percent faster gameplay in Resident Evil Village. Mac mini with M2 Pro M2 Pro brings pro-level performance to Mac mini for the first time. Featuring up to a 12-core CPU with eight high-performance cores and four high-efficiency cores, along with up to a 19-core GPU, M2 Pro has 200GB/s of memory bandwidth — double the amount in M2 — and supports up to 32GB of memory. The next-generation Neural Engine is 40 percent faster than M1, speeding up ML tasks like video analysis and image processing. Designed to dramatically accelerate video playback and encoding while using very little power, M2 Pro offers a powerful media engine, which speeds through the most popular video codecs and can simultaneously play up to five streams of 8K ProRes 422 video