Mac Studio, a new desktop powered by the monstrous M1 Ultra

Apple presented during the Peek Performance Today, your new member of the Mac family named Mac Studiowhich is a new category that fits between their models Mac Mini and Mac Pro. Can be configured with a chipset M1 Max O M1 Ultraand if combined with the new Studio Displayit’s almost like a spiritual successor to the 27-inch iMac.

Apple’s new desktop can only be described as a Mac mini on steroids. This newest member of the Mac family is aimed at professionals looking for something more compact than a Mac Pro, but also more powerful than Mac mini.

The base model of the Mac Studio is equipped with Apple’s M1 Max chip that debuted in the MacBook Pro 14 and MacBook Pro 16 last year, but it can also be configured with a new chipset called the M1 Ultra. Apple claims it will be up to 50 percent faster than a Mac Pro, and much faster than even the fastest 27-inch iMac. This latest comparison is even more relevant, as the 27-inch iMac has apparently disappeared from Apple’s online store.

Apple’s M1 technology, the spearhead of its new products

I know how to think of him M1 Ultra like a pair of M1 Max chips fused into one gigantic chip. Apple has stuffed no less than 114 billion transistors into it, which is more than three times the number of transistors what’s in one GPU Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 and a Intel Core i9-12900Ktogether.

This new chipset includes a 20 core CPU with 16 high performance cores and quad core efficiencya 64 core GPU and a 32 core neural engine in a package that is approximately eight times larger than the M1.

This is possible thanks to the UltraFusion architecture de Applewith an interposer spanning some 10,000 interconnects, raising the question of whether the company is interested in joining others in building the future of semiconductors through the Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (or UCIe).

Apple believes that the M1 Ultra will “shock the PC industry back to its feet,” which is certainly possible in terms of performance per watt, as the rest of the Apple Silicon family has already proven. It can also be configured with a paltry 128 gigabytes of high-bandwidth unified memory for a total of 2.5 terabytes per second of low-latency bandwidth shared between the CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine. A bestiality, really. And the Mac Studio comes with this crazy technology.

And you, what do you think of the Mac Studio? The best that Apple has shown so far, right?

Source: Techspot