Apple would equip its next Mac Pro with two powerful M1 Ultra chips

Apple took advantage of its spring 2022 conference to introduce a new super-powered M1 Ultra chip. It’s actually two M1 Max chips connected by a bridge offering. a dizzying 2.5TB of bandwidth per second. The American giant calls this processor “UltraFusion”.

According to Apple, The M1 Ultra chip is 8 times more powerful than the conventional M1 chip, and is much more energy efficient than a CPU with the same number of cores. According to preliminary results in the Geekbench benchmark test, we could also see that the M1 Ultra chip and its 20 cores need not be ashamed of the 64-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X. Apple shouldn’t hold back that well, as the next Mac Pro’s processor is already talking about it.

Apple’s Mac Pro will be the most powerful computer on the market

According to information obtained by internet user Majin Bu on TwitterApple’s next Mac Pro is expected to use a new SoC made up of two to four M1 Ultra chips. So this confirms information from Mark Gurman, who expects Apple to deliver a Mac Pro equipped with several M1 Max chips by the end of the year.

This processor would be codenamed “Redfern” and the bridge consisting of DAISY1 and DAISY2 in the UltraFusion architecture of the M1 Max chip would be called “DAISYXL”. So this new Mac Pro should be two to four times more powerful than Apple’s new Mac Studio, which is currently one of the most powerful machines on the market. As a reminder, Mac Studio is marketed with the M1 Max chip at 4599 euros.

If the next Mac Pro were to use a few of these chips, we can imagine that the price could exceed 10,000 euros. As the name suggests, the device is primarily intended for professionals. For now, it is unknown how Apple can name this new chip, but Mark Gurman thinks the company might prefer the “M1 Extreme” name.