{"id":1237093,"date":"2025-03-05T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237093"},"modified":"2025-03-05T09:00:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:00:23","slug":"apple-announces-m3-ultra-and-says-not-every-generation-will-see-an-ultra-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237093","title":{"rendered":"Apple announces M3 Ultra\u2014and says not every generation will see an \u201cUltra\u201d chip"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Apple\u2019s first Mac Studio refresh in nearly two years is a welcome update, injecting fresh life into two computers that were still getting by with M2 chips. But the company took a bit of a strange approach to the update, giving an M4-series Max chip to the lower-end Studio but an M3 Ultra chip to the high-end model.<\/p>\n

These processors are both performance upgrades from the M2 Max and M2 Ultra, and the M3 Ultra is so huge that it should have no trouble outrunning the M4 Max despite its slightly older CPU and GPU architecture. But it\u2019s still a departure from past practice, where Apple would keep the Studio\u2019s chip generation in lockstep.<\/p>\n

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<\/th>\nCPU P\/E-cores<\/th>\nGPU cores<\/th>\nRAM options<\/th>\nMemory bandwidth<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Apple M3 Ultra (low)<\/b><\/td>\n20\/8<\/td>\n60<\/td>\n96\/256GB<\/td>\n819.2GB\/s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apple M3 Ultra (high)<\/b><\/td>\n24\/8<\/td>\n80<\/td>\n128GB\/256GB\/512GB<\/td>\n819.2GB\/s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apple M2 Ultra (high)<\/b><\/td>\n16\/8<\/td>\n76<\/td>\nUp to 192GB<\/td>\n819.2GB\/s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apple M1 Ultra (high)<\/b><\/td>\n16\/4<\/td>\n32<\/td>\nUp to 128GB<\/td>\n819.2GB\/s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

When asked why the high-end Mac Studio was getting an M3 Ultra chip instead of an M4 Ultra, Apple told us that not every chip generation will get an \u201cUltra\u201d tier. This is, as far as I can recall, the first time that Apple has said anything like this in public.<\/p>\n

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