Apple M1 Ultra
On the stage of the “Peek Performance” event, Apple announced its new M1 Ultra SoC (system-on-chip). It is the latest addition to Apple’s M1 series processor, which includes chips like M1, M1 Pro, and M1 Max. The foundation for M1 Ultra is the powerful and power-efficient M1 Max processor, and with UltraFusion, the Ultra doubles the resources of the M1 Max.
In simple terms, the new M1 Ultra chip is a combination of two M1 Max chips to create a single powerful chip using UltraFusion, Apple’s custom-built packaging architecture. This chip packaging implementation of Apple uses a silicon interposer that connects the chips across more than 10,000 signals, providing a massive 2.5TB/s of inter-processor bandwidth. It allows M1 Ultra to behave and be recognized by software as one chip, so developers don’t need to rewrite code to take advantage of its performance.
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Apple M1 Ultra Specifications
The M1 Ultra features a 20-core CPU with 16 high-performance cores and four high-efficiency cores, which is twice that of the M1 Max. According to Apple, the M1 Ultra delivers 90 percent higher multi-threaded performance than Intel Core i9-12900K in the same power consumption and can match its peak performance using 100 fewer watts.
In terms of GPU performance, the chip brings a 64-core GPU (twice that of the M1 Max) claimed to deliver faster performance than even the highest-end PC GPU while using 200 fewer watts of power. M1 Ultra also features a 32-core Neural Engine that runs up to 22 trillion operations per second. It can now be configured with up to 128GB of RAM, and its memory bandwidth can reach 800GB/s. Furthermore, the M1 Ultra can play back up to 18 streams of 8K ProRes 422 video at the same time.
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