At the spring conference two days ago, Apple released the M1 Ultra processor, which is the fourth product of Apple's self-developed M1 processor, equivalent to the previous two M1 Max, both CPU and GPU are quite powerful, leaked running score test comparable to the top PC processor.
Although many people do not believe it, but the performance of the M1 Ultra does make AMD, Intel and NVIDIA three PC chip giants feel the crisis, although the single-core performance is about 20% worse than the Core i9-12900K, multi-core comparable to the Ryzen™ TR 3990X processor.
In terms of GPUs, the M1 Ultra consumes 200W less power at the same performance than the most high-end independent GPU, and consumes only 1/3 of the power consumption compared to the popular independent GPU, and this high-end unique GPU refers to the RTX 3090.
Of course, some of these performances are the paper data released by Apple, some are third-party tests, and they are relatively single, such as game performance is actually impossible to reach the RTX 3090 level, and there is a lack of advanced technologies such as light chasing.
At the same time, don't forget that Apple's self-developed chips are still in some places that are not perfect, such as the frequency of the CPU core 3.2GHz is much lower than the 5GHz+ of the Core i9, the multi-core does not support hyper-threading, and the GPU also lacks light chase and the optimization of many game manufacturers.
Although there are still some gaps, but no one dares to underestimate apple's potential, the M1 series of architecture has been used for two or three years, as soon as the end of this year there will be a new M2 processor, when the CPU and GPU performance will be upgraded again.
Apple's rapid progress on self-developed ARM processors has also made some PC players feel the crisis, and even jealousy - these two days there is a post on reddit that is very heated, a netizen said that he is jealous of the current relationship between Apple and ARM, on the one hand, Apple's M1 Ultra processor is exciting, on the other hand, Intel and other companies are completely stagnant, so that Apple is ahead.
This netizen's view is very interesting, but also very representative, pc three giant chips are also upgrading every year, but obviously there is no Apple such a boost, not to mention AMD / NVIDIA / Intel three, There is no manufacturer in the Android camp can match Apple, Qualcomm and Samsung's ARM processors either use the public architecture, or they are getting worse and worse, even if they use AMD's RDNA2 architecture authorization.
There is a Chinese company that is willing to spend money on its own CPU, GPU and software ecology, but due to well-known reasons, they are temporarily unable to launch self-developed processors.