We’re only two and a half years into Apple’s transition to its homegrown CPUs, but things have advanced reasonably quickly. Today the company unveiled the M2 Ultra which is powering the latest refresh to its MacStudio line of desktops. While previous versions of the M2 have been found exclusively in laptops, Apple was able to take brakes off with the Ultra version and claim some serious jumps in performance. It’s literally two M2 Max chips stuck together.

On paper the M2 Ultra is huge leap from the M2 Max found in the MacBook Pro. Core count has doubled from 12 to 24, GPU cores double with up to 76 available on the high-end model, and RAM support jumps from 96GB to 192. Granted, almost no one needs that much RAM, but it’s nice to know it’s an option. Considering the M1 was limited to just 16GB of unified memory when it launched in November of 2020, this is a massive improvement.

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This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/apple-announces-m2-ultra-chip-with-double-the-cpu-and-gpu-cores-171204873.html?src=rss

Source: Engadget – Apple announces M2 Ultra chip with double the CPU and GPU cores