Apple Unveils M1 Ultra, The World’s Most Powerful Personal Computer Chip
As part of its latest Peek Performance event, Apple has announced several new exciting innovations to its lineup, including what it’s calling “the next giant leap” for the Mac: an M1 ultra chip.
This brand-new system on a chip (SoC) was created from two M1 Max chips, resulting in “unprecedented levels of performance and capabilities,” which will be first instated in its newest Mac Studio offering.
As Engadget noted, this exclusive die-to-die interconnect feature, named ‘UltraFusion’, enables Apple to connect multiple chips into a single system for even more impressive output.
According to the press release, the M1 Ultra chip can reach 128GB of high-bandwidth, low-latency unified memory, with the ability to be accessed by the brand’s 20-core CPU, 64-core GPU, and 32-core Neural Engine.
Furthermore, the M1 Ultra reaches peak performance using 100 fewer watts than a typical 16-core PC chip, allowing for less energy to be consumed and quieter fans in the background.
Creatives working on code, 3D mock-ups, and video editing software will now be able to compile their work, render, and transcode five times faster than with a standard 28-core Mac Pro.
“M1 Ultra is another game-changer for Apple silicon that once again will shock the PC industry,” 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.”
