Apple announced a new high-end CPU, the M1 Ultra, at its March 2022 hardware event. The goal of this processor is to bring higher performance to the desktop PCs of creative professionals.
Apple claims this is the largest processor ever built, and it accomplishes this feat by taking two M1 Max chips and bridging them with a new connector that allows Apple to achieve incredible performance without sacrificing efficiency .
The huge M1 Ultra chip has a GPU with 8,192 execution units, which puts it on par with the RTX 3080 on paper alone. We’ll have to wait and see how it plays out in our tests, though. Just like the rest of the M1 family of processors, the M1 Max is a system-on-chip design, which means the CPU, GPU, RAM, storage, and media engine are all contained in one large chip. Unlike Apple’s other SoCs, though, the M1 Ultra is only available in Mac Studio. It goes on sale on March 18.
To be sure, the 64-core GPU built into the M1 Ultra is the highlight of Apple’s March 2022 event, but the actual CPU isn’t to be underestimated either. With the M1 Ultra, you get a 20-core CPU and 114 billion transistors, making it one of the densest processors ever built for a consumer device. High-performance cores are used to handle heavy workloads that require as much brute force as possible, while high-efficiency cores work in the background to handle background tasks as they arise.
Since the M1 Ultra is only in Mac Studio, battery life isn’t an issue. Apple can prioritize loading the chip with high-performance cores without adding more efficiency cores, because it doesn’t have to worry about battery life at all. This is also a Mac chip that supports up to 128GB of RAM, so it’s clearly designed to power creative-level workloads like video editing and rendering that require a lot of RAM.
If you’re a creative professional looking to harness the raw power of the M1 Ultra, you’ll be looking at Mac Studio. It’s the only Mac with the new M1 Ultra processor, but that’s not surprising. The amount of power such a device requires is simply too much for a mobile device, so it’s unlikely we’ll see the M1 Ultra make its way into the likes of the MacBook Pro — at least not in the current iteration.
But despite its price, the M1 Ultra is still easier to use than the Mac Pro. To be clear, though, the M1 Ultra is only really needed by creative professionals who need an extremely fast processor to make a living.
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