Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say twice as better. After all, how would you even top a single 432mm2 chip that’s already pushing the limits of manufacturability on TSMC’s N5 process? Well, as the answer turns out to be, Apple can do one better. And in the process, Apple has thrown the industry a fresh curveball by not just combining two M1 Max dies into a single chip package, but by making the two dies present themselves as a single, monolithic GPU, marking yet another first for the chipmaking industry.īack when Apple announced the M1 Pro and the ridiculously powerful M1 Max last fall, we figured Apple was done with M1 chips. Aimed squarely at desktops – specifically, Apple’s new Mac Studio – the M1 Ultra finds Apple once again upping the ante in terms of SoC performance for both CPU and GPU workloads. Most major programs have native versions, and the handful that don’t are transparent and I can’t really see a huge performance hit on it.As part of Apple’s spring “Peek Performance” product event this morning, Apple unveiled the fourth and final member of the M1 family of Apple Silicon SoCs, the M1 Ultra. It did take a bit to get Apache / PHP / Maria running on it for some web tools I work on, but it wasn’t impossible. I can’t tell when something is on a particular core – there is probably a CLI tool that would show it though.
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After a couple of days of email and web research it’s still at 50% from full charge. I also haven’t even needed to charge the thing yet. I need to get used to virtual desktops since the monitor is a good deal smaller than I’m used to, but it’s usable. I do like that it’s about the same size as my iPad, and likewise is silent, but has a full keyboard and trackpad. I don’t really have anything semi-modern to even compare it too. It’s much faster than the old Ivy Bridge, but I don’t know if the comparison is really that valid given the age difference. I was hoping to wait until the new Apple Silicon 16” models came out – but the swelling is now so bad I can’t use it, so I ordered a 13” M1. Semi-related, my 2013 15” MBP started to get chunky: the battery started swelling, the trackpad doesn’t click any more, and it won’t sit flat on the desk any more. Source: Bloomberg Don’t Miss Out on More FPS Review Content! Apple has also been working on a larger iMac with in-house processors, but development of that version was paused months ago in part to let Apple focus on releasing the redesigned 24-inch model this month. The new Mac Pro has been in the works for several months and is expected to look like a smaller version of the current design, which was launched in 2019, Bloomberg News has reported.
These next-generation Mac Pro desktops are also said to feature up to 128 graphics cores and echo the design of the current model.Īpple plans to release several new Mac laptops and desktops with faster processors, new designs and improved connectivity to external devices - Bloomberg May 18, 2021 According to a new report from Bloomberg, one of these will be a new Mac Pro desktop computer that features a CPU with up to 40 mixed cores (32 high-performance cores, eight high-efficiency cores)-a substantial increase over Intel’s 28-core Mac Pro chips. Apple has been busy distancing itself from Intel and replacing all of its Mac computers with in-house processors based on ARM technology.
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