![]() Apple uses a separate media engine to accelerate video processing with dedicated hardware for H.256, HEVC, and ProRes encoding and decoding. The SoC's GPU comes with either 60 or 70 GPU cores (we tested the latter), and every M2 Ultra has a 32-ore neural engine. M2 Ultra has 24 CPU cores: 16 performance cores and 8 efficiency cores. There are 134 billion transistors on what is easily Apple's largest and most powerful chip. The M2 Ultra is built on a 5 nm process and uses what Apple calls UltraFusion to connect the dies from two M2 Max SoCs (they appear as a single chip when it comes to apps). Are you a photographer or a videographer? Do you make 3D renders? Are you working on machine learning? Then maybe this is for you - but even then, only if you need a ton of horsepower. Our model, with an M2 Ultra, weighs 7.9 pounds thanks to a beefy copper thermal module (the M2 Max configurations are 2 pounds lighter with an aluminum cooler).Īpple M2 Ultra (24 CPU cores - 16 performance cores, 8 efficiency cores)Ģx Thunderbolt 4, SDXC card slot (UHS-II)Ĥx Thunderbolt 4, 2x USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-A, HDMI, 3.5 mm headphone jackħ.7 x 7.7 x 3.7 inches (197 x 197 x 95 mm), 7.9 pounds (3.6 kg) It's an aluminum block with rounded corners and a big shiny Mac logo on top, that measures 7.7 x 7.7 inches wide and deep and 3.7 inches tall. It tucks in nicely under the Mac Studio display, and that should be similar under many other screens. It's a desktop that has no problem fitting on, well, a desktop, even under a monitor. Apple Mac Studio M2 Ultra (Silver) at Best Buy for $3,999Īs far as workstation-class machines go, the Mac Studio is petite.Those users may want to consider the Mac Pro, which also comes equipped with the M2 Ultra, but in a bigger case that includes PCIe slots to add sound cards, storage cards, and more. But if you need expansion, the Mac Studio may not fit your bill, as it's not upgradeable. The M2 Ultra delivers some significant improvements over Apple's other chips. We’ll be adding more data-points as we collect them.The short take: If you're a Mac user that needs a lot of power, we think you're going to come away impressed. The M1 here demolishes a 2017 15-inch Macbook Pro with an Intel i7-7820HQ with 4 cores and 8 threads, posting over double the score. Multi-threaded performance is a matter of core-count and power efficiency of a design. Even when running in x86 compatibility mode, the M1 is able to match the top single-threaded performance of last generation’s high-end CPUs, and vastly exceed that of past iterations of the Mac mini and past Macbooks. In Geekbench 5, the M1 does again extremely well as it actually takes the lead in our performance figures. Web-browsing performance seems to be an extremely high priority for Apple’s CPU, and this makes sense as it’s the killer workload for mobile SoCs and the workload that one uses the most in everyday life. Now running on macOS and desktop Safari, being able to compare data to other Intel Mac systems, we can come to the conclusion that the performance advantage is due to Apple’s CPU designs. In browser-benchmarks we’ve known Apple’s CPUs to very much dominate across the landscape, but there were doubts as to whether this was due to the CPUs themselves in the iPhone or rather just the browsers and browser engines. Just as of note, we’re trying to gather more data on other systems as we have access to them, and expand the graph in further updates of the article past publishing. In the multi-threaded R23 runs, the M1 absolutely dominates past Macs with similar low-power CPUs. ![]() What’s notable is the performance of the Rosetta2 run of the benchmark when in x86 mode, which is not only able to keep up with past Mac iterations but still also beat them. The M1 here loses out to Zen3 and Tiger Lake CPUs, which still seem to have an advantage, although we’re not sure of the microarchitectural characteristics of the new benchmark. ![]() In this first-time view of the popular Cinema4D based benchmark, we see the Apple M1 toe-to-toe with the best-performing x86 CPUs on the market, vastly outperforming past Apple iterations of Intel silicon. One particular benchmark that sees the first light of day on macOS as well as Apple Silicon is Cinebench. We’ve made due with a assortment of available tests at the time of the launch to give us a rough idea of the performance: As we’ve had very little time with the Mac mini, and the fact that this not only is a macOS system, but a new Arm64-based macOS system, our usual benchmark choices that we tend to use aren’t really available to us. ![]()
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