Apple Claims M1 Ultra Is The Most Powerful Desktop Chip Ever
Apple just launched a new processor and claims its M1 Ultra is the most powerful desktop chip ever made for personal computers, supercharging the recently released Mac Studio. That's a powerful statement to make so soon after the release of Intel's impressive Alder Lake CPUs, and if true, shakes up the industry yet again. Apple continues to push forward at a pace that it will be hard for competitors to match.
The previous best Apple Silicon chip is also startlingly fast. The M1 Max powers the top-of-the-line MacBook Pro with 10 processing cores, 32 graphics cores, and 16 neural cores. While the CPU is only a modest increase over the M1, the GPU is a leap, quadrupling what Apple's first desktop processor offered. The M1 Max still sips power gently enough to be used in a battery-powered MacBook Pro, with Apple claiming it can run for 21 hours between charges.
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As amazing as the M1 Max is, Apple doubled down on that performance with the M1 Ultra, literally connecting two M1 Max chips with a revolutionary bridge called UltraFusion that has four times the bandwidth of the leading processor interconnect technology. Without a bottleneck for communication between chips, the speed is double that of the M1 Max. Apple explained that the two chips are so closely intertwined that the rest of the system sees the M1 Ultra as a single processor, making the merge transparent. That implies the two-times performance boost might apply to the entire chip, doubling single-core speeds as well as multi-core CPU, GPU, and NPU processing.
This is all very impressive for the Mac world, but the leader in desktop processing is typically a PC powered by an Intel CPU and an Nvidia
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