Apple today unveiled M6 in the new Mac mini and M5 Ultra in the new Mac Studio. The Cupertino company says the new chips provide “an extraordinary leap in performance and AI capabilities.”
The M6 is Apple’s first state-of-the-art 2-nanometer chip, boasting a larger 12-core CPU complex with the world’s fastest CPU core, a larger 12-core GPU with Neural Accelerators, a Dual 16-core Neural Engine, and up to 170GB/s of unified memory bandwidth.
Meanwhile, the M5 Ultra is the first time we’ve seen a quad-die architecture in an M-series system on a chip (SoC). The chip boast an up-to-36-core CPU and up-to-80-core GPU with 1.2TB/s of unified memory bandwidth, 50% more than the M3 Ultra. Apple says they deliver extraordinary compute with industry-leading power efficiency, allowing users to do even more on a desktop.
“Today, we’re debuting the next giant leap in performance and AI compute for Apple silicon with the incredibly advanced M6 and the most powerful M-series chip yet, M5 Ultra,” Sri Santhanam, Apple’s vice president of Silicon Engineering Group is quoted as saying. “Built using the cutting-edge 2 nm process, M6 combines a new CPU complex, two additional CPU and GPU cores, a Dual 16-core Neural Engine, and more unified memory bandwidth to power through workloads with amazing energy efficiency. And for the ultimate desktop performance and the ability to run massive AI models, M5 Ultra features a massive GPU, now with Neural Accelerators, and more unified memory bandwidth, pushing the boundaries of what a desktop can do.”