IT Home March 9 news, Apple today officially released the M1 Ultra, bringing the strongest M1 series of chips in history. Designed with a multi-die architecture, it consists of two M1 Max with a 20-core CPU and a 64-core GPU.
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Apple today released the M1 Ultra, another major leap forward for Apple chips and Mac-series computers. The M1 Ultra uses Apple's innovative UltraFusion package architecture to create an unprecedented level of Performance and Power SoC chip through the internal interconnection of two M1 Max grains, providing stunning computing power for the new Mac Studio while still maintaining industry-leading power consumption ratios.
With a total of 114 billion transistors integrated inside, this new SoC chip is the highest number in mac chip history. The M1 Ultra's configurable bandwidth of up to 128GB with low-latency unified memory delivers incredible performance with a 20-core CPU, 64-core graphics processor, and 32-core neural engine, enabling developers to compile code, artists to render massive 3D scenes, and video production professionals transcoding video to ProRes format up to 5.6 times faster than a 28-core Mac Pro with an Afterburner accelerator card.
"The M1 Ultra is another disruptive product in Apple chips that will once again shock the pc industry. By using the UltraFusion package architecture to connect the dies of two M1 Max chips, we were able to push Apple chips to new heights like never before," said Johny Srouji, senior vice president of hardware technology at Apple The lineup of chips adds one of the world's most powerful Mac computer chips. ”
Groundbreaking UltraFusion architecture
The M1 Ultra is a further upgrade to the extremely powerful and energy-efficient M1 Max. It uses Apple's custom UltraFusion package architecture to connect the grains of two M1 Max chips directly together. The most common way to improve performance is to connect two chips through the motherboard, but this is often accompanied by many drawbacks, including increased latency, reduced bandwidth, and increased power consumption.
Apple's innovative UltraFusion architecture uses a silicon intermediation layer to connect multiple chips that transmit more than 10,000 signals simultaneously, enabling up to 2.5TB/s low-latency processor interconnect bandwidth, which is 4 times more interconnect bandwidth than the industry's leading high-end multichip. This architecture allows the M1 Ultra to still show the integrity of a chip when working, and it will also be recognized by all software as a complete chip, and developers can directly use its powerful performance without rewriting the code. There is no precedent in history.
Unprecedented performance and energy efficiency
The M1 Ultra features an incredibly powerful 20-core CPU consisting of 16 high-performance cores and 4 energy-efficient cores. Use it to process multithreaded tasks at up to 90% faster than the fastest model in a similar range of 16-core desktop PC chips on the market. The M1 Ultra, on the other hand, consumes 100 watts less power when it comes to the peak performance of the desktop PC chip described above. This amazing energy efficiency means lower power consumption and quieter fan operation, even when running performance-critical workflows like Logic Pro, such as when dealing with a large number of virtual instruments, audio plug-ins, and sound effects.
The M1 Ultra's 20-core CPU can handle multithreaded tasks up to 90% faster than the fastest model of a 16-core desktop PC chip on the market with a similar power range.
While working with graphics-intensive workflows, such as 3D rendering and complex image processing, the M1 Ultra has a 64-core graphics processor equivalent to 8x the size of the M1 chip, running faster than the most high-end PC graphics processors on the market while consuming 200 watts less power.
Apple's unified memory architecture has also been upgraded within the M1 Ultra. The memory bandwidth is increased to 800GB/s, which is more than 10 times that of the latest desktop PC chips, and the maximum choice is to configure a total of 128GB of unified memory. The most powerful PC graphics card is equipped with less than 48GB of video memory, which is unmatched compared to the M1 Ultra. With such massive amounts of video memory, it can support workflows involving massive graphics, such as processing extreme 3D geometry and rendering huge scenes.
The 32-core neural engine in the M1 Ultra can perform up to 22 trillion operations per second, accelerating the most complex machine learning tasks. Not only that, but because the built-in media processing engine has twice the capacity of the M1 Max, the M1 Ultra's throughput capacity for proRes format video codec tasks has also increased to an all-time high.
In fact, the new Mac Studio system with the M1 Ultra chip can play up to 18 video streams in 8K ProRes 422 format simultaneously, and no other Apple chip can do that. The M1 Ultra also integrates custom Apple technologies, such as a display engine capable of driving multiple external displays simultaneously, Raiden 4 controller integration, and best-in-class security technologies, including Apple's latest security compartments, secure boot based on certified hardware, and runtime anti-exploit technologies.
macOS and various apps have been vigorously upgraded for the M1 Ultra
The deep integration of hardware and software has always been a core component of the Mac experience. Designed specifically for Apple chips, macOS Monterey takes advantage of the M1 Ultra's massive upgrades to CPU, graphics processor, and memory bandwidth. Developer technologies such as Metal help apps take full advantage of the power of the new chip, while optimizations for Core ML allow machine learning models to run machine learning models at unprecedented speeds with the help of the new 32-core neural network engine.
Users can now use the highest number of apps on a Mac on an all-time high, including a wide range of iPhone and iPad apps that can now run on the Mac, as well as general-purpose apps that take full advantage of the performance of the M1 series of chips. Apps that haven't been upgraded to universal apps can run seamlessly with Apple's Rosetta 2 technology.
Users can now use the highest number of apps on their Macs in history, and all kinds of general-purpose apps will be able to play the full power of the M1 Ultra chip.
The migration to Apple chips is another major development
At present, Apple has fully applied Apple chips in almost all Mac product lines. And each new chip, including the M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max, and the M1 Ultra released this time, gives the Mac amazing power. As another powerful member of the M1 family of chips, the M1 Ultra powers the new high-performance desktop system, Mac Studio. Apple chips' industry-leading performance-per-watt ratios enable this new product to achieve a newly conceived, compact design.
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The outstanding energy efficiency of Apple custom chips helps Mac Studio consume less power throughout the product lifecycle. In fact, the extraordinary Mac Studio consumes up to 1,000 kWh of power over a full year compared to a high-end desktop PC.
Apple is currently carbon neutral in its global corporate operations and plans to make all of its businesses carbon neutral by the end of 2030, including the manufacturing supply chain and all product lifecycles. This means that every chip Apple produces, from design to manufacturing, will be 100% carbon neutral.