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Apple Announces 'M1 Ultra' Chip With 20-Core CPU, Up to 64-Core GPU, and Support for 128GB of Memory
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Wait until the next version... The new "M1 Ultra Pro Max Plus"
They really messed up the naming here. Imagine the Max not being the Max performance chip. Not sure why they didn’t go with M1, M1X, M1 Pro, M1 Max
I mean, you're on MacRumors, and you didn't really have to watch the video to get the tech details on this site.
M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max, M1 Ultra.
Don’t see how that’s screwed up, nor any better or worse than your suggestion ?♂️
It's gonna get worse. We already know there will be another even more powerful chip coming for the Mac Pro that is 4x M1 Max, so what are they going to call that one? M1 Extreme?
Apple's naming has become a disaster. M1 Ultra (sounds like MK Ultra)? Super Retina XDR Display? iPhone 13 Pro Max? Everything's so over the top. "M1" was a great, simple name compared to Intel's "i9-11900HK" or whatever. But Apple really needs to simplify their names. Hint: if it has four or more parts, it's too long.
I expect it will still be the M1 Ultra, there will just be two of them on the same shared interconnecting fabric.
I somehow doubt Apple is going to release the new AS Mac Pro and have it limited to only 256GB RAM, when the current Intel Mac Pro is user upgradeable to up to 1.5TB RAM. That would be quite embarrassing. I will bet anything there will be plug in non-SoC RAM ability to add to the 256GB SoC RAM. For serious Pro applications, a 256GB RAM limitation would be an absolute joke.
The sweet spot here is the Ultra with 48 GPU cores. The 24 Core Max GPU keeps up with the 32 Core Max GPU for most work. Each Max (there's two in Ultra) includes 2 dedicated video transcoders for a total of at least 4 of them in 24 Core Max GPU. For that much power the upgrade price is definitely worth it for those who would use that much power. I've not felt let down by the M1 Max 32 Core yet though. The base model is an amazing package.
Based on what a single 32 Core Max GPU can do, the 48 Core Ultra will be more than enough for 98% of video editors. The only people who will really need the 64 Core GPU for now will be gamers. Not sure what gamers would be doing with an M1 Ultra Studio.
The A5X and A6X had their RAM off-die so it seems possible Apple can do the same with the Mac Pro - a mix of on-die and off-die RAM, with the off-die RAM taking a performance hit due to latency and lower bandwidth.
Max should be the top of the line, not mid range. Maybe then M1, M1 Pro, M1 Ultra, M1 Max
The $3,999 Mac Studio has higher performance than a similarly equipped 28 core Xeon Mac Pro that sells for $15,000. All its missing is ECC RAM and slots. What has remotely close to Mac Studio performance for remotely close to its price?
The 2021 MBPs were almost identical prices to the Intel MBPs, with far better performance and battery life. Apple just dropped the lowest configurations.
That’s a hard stretch to even consider using a M1 Ultra Studio for gaming given current prices. But perhaps this will still add more appeal to using the model for developing games for macs.
The thing is the 3090 can already be considered an old GPU and the only reason it users a lot of power is because it' built on Samsung's 10nm basically, but Nvidia will sonn be moving to 5nm and when they will get there the 4090 will have over 100% better efficiency for double the performance of the 3090 so the GPU in this M1 Ultra will look like a kid's toy by comparison. So yeah at least matching the performance of a 3090 would not be bad.