Apple last week debuted its new M4 Pro and M4 Max chips in the MacBook Pro and Mac mini. Next year, the highest-end M4 Ultra chip should appear in 2025 inside an upgraded Mac Studio and all-new Mac Pro.
Joe Rossignol for MacRumors:
In his Power On newsletter [on Sunday], Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman said the M4 Ultra chip in the next Mac Pro will “probably” have up to a 32-core CPU and up to an 80-core GPU, which would be double the M4 Max’s up to 16-core CPU and up to 40-core GPU.
When will the M4 Ultra chip be available? In a report last month, Gurman said the next Mac Studio will likely “debut between March and June” next year, and higher-end configurations of that computer should be available with the M4 Ultra chip. He expects a new Mac Pro desktop tower with the M4 Ultra chip to follow in the second half of next year.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple’s M4 Ultra. For when you absolutely, positively have to sequence the human genome before the coffee maker beeps.
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
will it beat amd’s 64 core threadripper and have one terabyte ram on the chip with 1.6 terabyte transfer rate? starting at 2500 in the studio, and run at a much higher clock? time. I can’t make more time, but I can make more power, more cooling.
My hope is the fabled “Extreme” version actually surfaces. I very much doubt it will, but I can dream.
The complete restructuring of the M4 as different from the M1 through M3 series is supposed to remove the bottleneck that was created when they fused to Max chips to create the Ultra chip. In those prior iterations there was no truly practical way to fuse two Ultra chips together. With the restructuring of the interface between CPU cores, GPU cores, and the neural cores it may now be possible to create that “Extreme” version.
The next version of the Mac Pro could certainly provide the power and cooling such a beast would require.
In my dreams, Apple will have the “Max” and “Ultra” versions in the Mac Studio and have the “Ultra” and “Extreme” versions, maybe even at higher clock rates, in the Mac Pro.
And so by next year the Mac Pro will finally be as fast as a year old iPad.