Apple M1 Ultra vs M1 Max vs M1 Pro vs M1 comparison

Continuing to turn the chip world upside down, Apple has set the bar high with the Apple M1 Ultra chipset, which it put on the stage in yesterday’s promotion. We’ve put together the Apple M1 Ultra and other Apple M1 series chipsets, which have the highest transistor count ever seen in a PC chip.

What are the Apple M1 Ultra features?

Thanks to the special connection interface in the Apple M1 Max chip, the two chips come together to form the Apple M1 Ultra chip. Apple’s innovative UltraFusion architecture uses a silicon intermediary that connects chips with over 10,000 signals. This way it offers a massive 2.5TB/s of low-latency bandwidth. In total, it turns out 114 billion transistors, 16 performance cores, 4 efficiency cores and 64 graphics cores.

With the M1 Ultra, Apple’s unified memory architecture has also leveled up. Memory bandwidth increased to 800 GB/s. Moreover, the M1 Ultra can also be configured with 128GB of combined memory. Compared to the most powerful PC graphics cards that can offer up to 48GB of memory, the M1 Ultra is quite remarkable in terms of graphics memory to support very large GPU-intensive workloads such as high-end 3D geometry processing and rendering for massive scenes.

When we look at the comparisons, the performance per watt is 90 percent higher than a computer with 16 core Core i9-12900K, RTX 3090 and DDR5. It also consumes 100W less energy. The graphics unit is 200W lower. Thus, fanless structures are possible. Geekbench 5 scores also showed that Intel Xeon processors were compromised.

Apple M1 Ultra vs M1 Max vs M1 Pro vs M1 comparison

Since the Apple M1 Ultra chip is a derivative of Apple M1 Max, we can actually say that there are 3 different chip designs in the series. The Apple M1 original chipset will now appeal to slightly more entry-level products, while the Apple M1 Pro and Apple M1 Max will target high-end products. Apple M1 Ultra, on the other hand, will take its place in performance-oriented premium products. We will see this chip frequently in Mac Pro and more powerful Mac models in the future.