According to TrendForce, it now looks like Apple is going to take Mac performance even further by installing its new M3 Ultra chip by mid-year. Bloomberg News‘ Mark Gurman has previously reported that the M3 Ultra will sport 32 CPU cores and 80 GPU cores, making it the most powerful Mac chip available by far. Notably, the TrendForce report fails to make any mention of the Mac Pro.
Specifically, we could see it make its debut at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June 2024. That roughly lines up with previous Ultra chips from Apple: the M1 Ultra appeared in March 2022, while the M2 Ultra was revealed at the WWDC show in June 2023.
The addition of the M3 Ultra is big news because of how impressive Apple’s M3 range of chips have been so far. The company launched the M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max in late 2023, and they all brought sizable gains thanks to the chips’ use of 3nm process tech.
The report from TrendForce references Chinese outlet ICsmart, which claims that the M3 Ultra “may debut in [a] revamped Mac Studio mid-year.” Interestingly, there is no mention of the Mac Pro in the claims from either TrendForce or ICsmart.
That could simply be an error. Or it could be that Apple is holding the M3 Ultra back from the Mac Pro, either temporarily or permanently. If the M3 Ultra really is going to come to the Mac Studio but not the Mac Pro in June, that would throw into question Apple’s commitment to the latter device and raise questions over whether the Mac Pro is being phased out.
MacDailyNews Take: As for the Mac Studio release, yesterday, our little birdie added confirmation, in typically voluminous fashion, “WWDC 2024.”
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Apple is “committed” to the iPhone, iPad Pro, and MacBook Pro. EVERYTHING else is on a year to year whim. Thats just how they roll…
Yes, I’m still pissed about Aperture…
Savings from NOT making the case alone would be bottom-line beneficial, but costly to the Pros.
Yep, Aperture is a huge miss. It’s one thing pulling interface (Lightening/to USB), but pulling something with time invested (learning/relearning), can scorn. Apple, through the yrs, has this as a bad habit. Whimsical = yes.
Apple is starting to lose their way! The MacBook Pro’s gotten better with adding HDMI port and more ports and not just focused on just being thin! But losing a tower and pro’s and seeing bugs in macOS and Apple Maps still not having a street view, iPhones looking the same for how many years now and few more issues not getting recognized and they are not moving fast enough!
iOS has street view. It is called Look Around. It’s way better than StreetView wherever it is available. More up-to-date image and smoother transition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_Around_(Apple)
I’m Apple but have to use Google Maps against my wished as the Apple equivalent is barely available anywhere – outside of California.
Look around in one spot. Can’t move around like street view! I emailed them how to do it and make it better than Google Street view but they didn’t do it. They have taken my ideas over the years but not that one.
Did I read correctly somewhere that the GPU in Apple silicon is still far behind the best the Nvidia produces?
Yes, the M series GPU configurations are at least a generation or two behind the top of the line Nvidia and AMD stand alone GPU cards — even if the M3 Ultra will have 80 GPU cores. This is why the Mac Pro needs to exist. The next Mac Pro, which I fantasize about seeing before the end of calendar year 2024, really needs to be an M3 Ultra based equivalent of the 2019 Mac Pro. (Though I would bet only a handful of customers configured it with the full 1.5 TB of RAM.)
There were rumors of an M2 Extreme, which was supposed to be two M2 Ultras fused together, but that never became a reality. If an M3 Extreme were to pop up in a new Mac Pro before the end of this calendar year in a 2019 style system it might return the Mac Pro to the status of being a true workstation class machine.
Some of you may recall the days of Apple’s top end PowerPC based Mac that was so fast that for a short while Apple had to get permission from the U.S. State Department to sell it to non U.S. customers. Apple’s interest in TRUE top end Mac Pros has fallen a long way since then (and we won’t even talk about that trash can Mac Pro).
That was the tank commercial wasn’t it for the permission to sell the Mac Pro at that time?
May as well. They are not interested in it
m3 series are great processors when power draw is critical like mobile, laptops but when put up against AMD threadrippers and Nvidia 4900 series GPUs, apple is years and years behind. Apple knows they have no answer for true modern workstation performance. And for many of the same reasons no one uses M series processors for AI machine learning. Tim’s Apple has totally missed the boat on the greatest technology advancement in computer history. They took their eye off the ball and became more concerned with buying streaming stuff for apple plus. The should be able to do multiply things at the same time, but for some reason they didn’t, and anybody with a since of historical relevence knows that AI will have greater impact then yet another streaming service, In a few years no content creation professional will use Apple hardware for AI generation, Apple is not even in the game. Don’t believe me just ask Siri, and/or wait a few years and ask the “Nanny knows best” safe approved AI version of Siri.
Do you know what Apple has ints sleeves? or are You just speculating in the negative zone in you own mind…
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It’s based on two data points. Apple has a history of censorship in terms of its apps, podcasts and content it distributes, promotes and produces. and Tim said a few weeks back that Apple is working on AI but they are waiting until it’s “safe”
Anyone that understands the nature of ai models; machine learning and the importance of the data knows there is no way to have a useful tool that can’t be used in an “unsafe” way. Cars are unsafe, trucks, rockets, food manufacturing, military weapons (383,000 fully automatic battles rifles left behind in Afghanistan) have the potential to be used in unsafe ways. There is zero chance that Apple can make a “safe” AI that anyone will actually want to use. Heck apple is ten years behind with Siri. AAPL running on the fumes of Steve Jobs but Tim Cook lacks vision and moral consistency to navigate AI. But maybe I’m wrong, time will tell if Apple leads the ai revolution. So far, they seem to be more focused on other things. Apple is MIA on the biggest computer advancement in human history. Apple went from “risk takers, Trail Blazers” under Steve Jobs to “safety first, nanny state knows best” CCP puppet Apple