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Apple today announced the M1 Ultra chip, the third iteration to the M1 family, and it represents the next "breakthrough" for Apple Silicon.

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M1 Ultra consists of two M1 Max chips connected with die-to-die technology called "UltraFusion." The new highest-end chip of Apple Silicon features 114 billion transistors, with higher support for bandwidth memory at 800GB/s.

"M1 Ultra is another game-changer for Apple silicon that once again will shock the PC industry. By connecting two M1 Max die with our UltraFusion packaging architecture, we're able to scale Apple silicon to unprecedented new heights," said Johny Srouji, Apple's senior vice president of Hardware Technologies. "With its powerful CPU, massive GPU, incredible Neural Engine, ProRes hardware acceleration, and huge amount of unified memory, M1 Ultra completes the M1 family as the world's most powerful and capable chip for a personal computer."
UltraFusion allows two M1 Max chips to connect together across more than 10,000 signals, offering 2.5TB/s of bandwidth, according to Apple.

M1 Ultra has a 20-core CPU, with 16 high-performance and four high-efficiency cores. M1 Ultra supports up to 128GB of unified memory, an increase from the up to 64GB memory supported by the M1 Pro and M1 Max.

In graphics, M1 Ultra has a 64-core GPU, which offers 8x faster graphics than M1. M1 Ultra has a 32-core Neural Engine, which can operate 22 trillion operations per second and has two separate media engines.

As is common with Apple Silicon, Apple claims that M1 Ultra offers "unprecedented" power efficiency with equally unprecedented power.

It delivers 90 percent higher multi-threaded performance than the fastest available 16-core PC desktop chip in the same power envelope. Additionally, M1 Ultra reaches the PC chip's peak performance using 100 fewer watts.2 That astounding efficiency means less energy is consumed and fans run quietly, even as apps like Logic Pro rip through demanding workflows, such as processing massive amounts of virtual instruments, audio plug-ins, and effects.
The first Mac to feature the M1 Ultra is the Mac Studio, which is aimed at creative professionals. The Mac Studio is available for order today.

Article Link: Apple Announces 'M1 Ultra' Chip With 20-Core CPU, Up to 64-Core GPU, and Support for 128GB of Memory
 
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why can’t they ever mention which GPU lol i really want to know what they are comparing it to cause it’s definitely not a 3090
 
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This is more or less what I was expecting a year and a half ago.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/last-minute-apple-silicon-mac-thoughts.2266476/post-29193055
I don't expect them tomorrow, but eventually multi-processor machines. If they threw two A14s in there, that would be 4 high-performance cores (and 8 high-efficiency cores) total. Throw in four A14s and that's 8 high-performance cores total. (But it probably won't be A14s because they would have to be modified to support multi-processor use, though I guess it's possible they are already designed for it. But that would mean wasted transistors in all those iPhone 12s and iPad Airs that have only a single A14.)

https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ts.2266476/page-6?post=29193284#post-29193284
I don't disagree, which is why I don't think it will be A14 SoCs but something else. Something designed for interprocessor communication and cache coherency. ...
Apple could have a killer "Pro" machine this way.
 
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Holy ****! It’s clear that Apple has either talked to the aliens and got their tech or did a Terminator-like jump to the future to steal Miles Dyson’s work.
it’s two chips in 1 nothing high tech i just want to see how they will handle the extra heat
 

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I hate these shows, they make me feel sick with their fakeness. Just give me the tech sheet....
thank you , look i’m really new to apple products but I hate these videos i love when they give out tech information going to have to wait for other channels to make videos about it
 

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600 nits is not that great for hdr work you need 900 minimum at least 1000 nits for good hdr
 

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Clearly it’s not “just” anything — or there would be other chipmakers routinely doing the same thing to increase their chip performance, right?
dude nothing i said was wrong here, m1 allows them perfect merging they have already mentioned this a year ago, this was already predicted a year ago
 

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M1 Ultra version of Mac Studio starts at $3999? That’s $1000 $2000 more than M1 Max version!

EDIT: I don’t know what happened with my math. I was expecting it to be $1000 more, $2000 more is shocking.
 
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