June 5, 2023
PRESS RELEASE
Apple introduces M2Ultra
With a faster CPU and GPU, plus support for even more unified memory, the M2 Ultra takes Mac performance further than ever before
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today announced M2 Ultra, a new system-on-chip (SoC) that delivers dramatic performance improvements to the Mac and completes the M2 family. The M2 Ultra is the largest and most capable chip Apple has ever created, making the new Mac Studio and Mac Pro the most powerful Mac desktops ever. The M2 Ultra is built using a second-generation 5-nanometer process and uses Apple’s innovative UltraFusion technology to connect the die of two M2 Max chips, doubling performance. The M2 Ultra is made up of 134 billion transistors, 20 billion more than the M1 Ultra. Its unified memory architecture supports up to a breakthrough 192GB of memory capacity, which is 50% more than the M1 Ultra, and has 800GB/s of memory bandwidth that is double that of the M2 Max. The M2 Ultra features a more powerful CPU that is 20% faster than the M1 Ultra, a larger GPU up to 30% faster and a Neural Engine up to 40% faster.1 It also features a media engine with twice the capabilities of the M2 Max for incredible ProRes acceleration. With all these advancements, the M2 Ultra once again takes Mac performance to a whole new level.
The M2 Ultra delivers astonishing performance and capacity for our professional users’ most demanding workflows, while maintaining the industry-leading energy efficiency of Apple silicon, said Johny Srouji, Apple’s senior vice president of hardware technologies. With massive CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine performance improvements, combined with massive memory bandwidth in a single SoC, the M2 Ultra is the world’s most powerful chip ever created for a personal computer.
Industry-leading UltraFusion technology
The M2 Ultra consists of two M2 Max die connected using UltraFusion, Apple’s industry-leading custom packaging technology. UltraFusion uses a silicon interposer that connects dies with more than 10,000 signals, providing over 2.5TB/s of low latency interprocessor bandwidth.
UltraFusions architecture allows M2 Ultra to appear as a single chip to software. This means no code rewriting is required to utilize the extreme performance of the M2 Ultra and makes UltraFusion unlike anything else in the industry.
Unmatched performance and energy efficiency
The 24-core CPU of M2 Ultra consists of 16 next-generation high-performance cores and eight next-generation high-efficiency cores, delivering up to 20% faster performance than M1 Ultra. With Mac Studio powered by the M2 Ultra, colorists using DaVinci Resolve will experience video processing up to 50% faster than Mac Studio powered by the M1 Ultra.2
The GPU can be configured with 60 or 76 next generation cores. That’s up to 12 more cores and up to a 30% improvement over the incredibly powerful GPU in the M1 Ultra. Rendering 3D effects using Octane on Mac Studio with M2 Ultra is up to 3x faster than Mac Studio with M1 Ultra.2
Revolutionary unified memory architecture
Apple’s unified memory architecture, a hallmark of Apple silicon, delivers incredible bandwidth, low latency, and unmatched power efficiency. The M2 Ultra features 800GB/s of system memory bandwidth, far exceeding anything found in a PC. And it can be configured with a whopping 192GB of unified memory, enabling workflows not possible on a PC. For example, the M2 Ultra can train massive machine learning workloads in a single system that the most powerful discrete GPU can’t even process.3
Advanced custom technologies power machine learning, video, and more
The M2 Ultra integrates Apple’s latest custom technologies directly onto the chip, maximizing performance and efficiency:
- M2 Ultra features a 32-core neural engine, delivering 31.6 trillion operations per second, with 40% faster performance than M1 Ultra.
- The powerful media engine has twice the capabilities of M2 Max, further accelerating video processing. It features dedicated, hardware-enabled H.264, HEVC and ProRes encoding and decoding, allowing the M2 Ultra to play up to 22 streams of 8K ProRes 422 video far more than any PC chip can.
- The display engine supports up to six Pro Display XDRs, driving over 100 million pixels.
- The latest Secure Enclave, combined with hardware-verified secure boot and runtime anti-exploitation technologies, provides best-in-class security.
Better for the environment
The energy-efficient performance of the M2 Ultra opens up new possibilities for even the most demanding professional users without sacrificing environmental responsibility. Today, Apple is carbon neutral for global corporate operations and, by 2030, expects to have zero climate impact across the company, including manufacturing supply chains and all product lifecycles. This also means that every chip Apple creates, from design to manufacturing, will be 100% carbon neutral.
Mac transition to Apple Silicon now complete
With the M2 Ultra powering the new Mac Pro, the Mac’s transition to Apple silicon is now complete, revolutionizing the laptop and desktop experience. Powered by Apple’s continued innovation in silicon, it’s the beginning of a new era for the Mac.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV. Apple’s five software platforms iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS deliver seamless experiences across all Apple devices and bring people innovative services including the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay and iCloud. Apple’s more than 100,000 employees are dedicated to making the best products on earth and leaving the world better than we found it.
- Results are compared to previous generation Mac Studio systems with the Apple M1 Ultra, 20-core CPU, 64-core GPU, and 64GB of RAM.
- Results are compared to previous generation Mac Studio systems with the Apple M1 Ultra, 20-core CPU, 64-core GPU, 128GB RAM, and 8TB SSD.
- Testing conducted by Apple in April 2023 using preproduction Mac Studio systems featuring an Apple M2 Ultra, 76-core GPU, and 192GB of RAM, as well as a PC system with 48GB GDDR6 NVIDIA RTX A6000 graphics. Performance measured using selected models of publicly available transformers. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of Mac Studio.
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