Right after the Apple iPhone SE (3rd-gen) and iPad Air 5 broke cover, the company unveiled the latest and final member of the M1 series of chips – the Apple M1 Ultra. Performance-wise, the new Apple Silicon slots right ahead of the existing M1, M1 Pro and M1 Max, even though they are manufactured using the same 5nm architecture.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!The Apple M1 Ultra features the company’s custom-built packaging architecture called UltraFusion. With UltraFusion, two M1 Max chips are interconnected along the die to scale performance rather than across the motherboard. The SoC features a 20-core CPU with 16 high performance cores and 4 high-efficiency cores, 64-core GPU (8x the size of the M1), 32-core Neural Engine, and delovers 800GB/s memory bandwidth. It also offers up to 128GB of unified memory configuration and consist of 114 billion transistors (7x more than the M1 and 2x more than the M1 Max).
The 32 Core Neural Engine onboard runs up to 22 trillion operations per second and features twice the media engine capabilities of M1 Max. Other features include Secure Enclave, hardware-verified secure boot, and runtime anti-exploitation technologies for security; integrated Thunderbolt 4 controllers and multiple external displays capability. It is deeply integrated with the macOS monterey and will be available on the all-new Mac Studio.