Apple Silently Changed The Design Of The M3 Max Chip Which Could Have A Huge Impact On The M3 Ultra Chip
Apple Silicon has come a long way, and the company has introduced various versions of its M-series of chips to power Macs and iPads. Last year, the company introduced its latest M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max chips in the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models that feature advanced computational and graphical performance over the M2 series of chips. According to the latest, it appears that the M3 Max is a standalone chip made of a single die instead of two dies combined, which could have a bigger impact on the performance of the upcoming M3 Ultra chip.
The M3 Ultra chip could be a standalone chip, similar to the M3 Max chip, which no longer features the UltraFusion interconnect
The theory came to life when Vadim Yuryev from the YouTube channel Max Tech cited a post from @techanalye1, highlighting that the M3 Max chip does not feature an UltraFusion interconnect. He went on to state that the unreleased M3 Ultra chip will not be made of two M3 Max chips in a single package. If this is true, the M3 Ultra chip will be a standalone chip instead of two M3 Max chips combined through UltraFusion interconnect.
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Apple has not used a similar technology in the past, and once it does, the M3 Ultra chip could be built as a standalone chip. If this is true, Apple's switch to a single die could enable various customization to the chip, including an all-performance core design instead of a combination of performance and efficiency cores. Moreover, it could also feature additional GPU cores for even better graphical performance. This also means that the company could ditch all efficiency cores on future Macs, and in comparison to the M2 Ultra chip, the performance gap will be even bigger due to no efficiency losses over the UltraFusion interconnect.
Other than this, Yuryev also anticipated that the M3 Ultra chip could come with its own UltraFusion
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