No, that is not happening. Apple said the M1 Ultra is the last M1 chip, ie Jade. So the Mac Pro won't be double the M1 Ultra, it will most likely be two M2 Ultra's instead.
Electric cars are faster. The M1 GPU performance is great, but not great compared to high-end dedicated GPUs.
Guess the M1 processor is the modular part from Apple's perspective, since they were able to basically stitch two of them together
Should have thought of that before announcing the Mac Studio.
Since before the first Apple Silicon system shipped, because there are fewer options for internal changes, I’d figured that the differences between tiers would be in the I/O. Just like the M1 spanned the Air, Pro and Mini (main differences between being form factor and I/O), I figure the same would apply to any future Mac Pro. Same top end CPU/GPU/RAM/Storage configuration with the added bonus of internal storage, more connectors, or whatever other special sauce Apple is hearing from it’s well heeled customers that they want.
Gamers and ML engineers won’t be able to do much with PCIe slots as GPU’s aren’t likely to go into them. The next largest use case for slots is probably audio cards considering Logic Pro, but any other use case beyond that gets REALLY niche.
