ADOBE DIMENSION M1 MAC
What happens next?Įnding its presentation, Apple said it had one more Mac to introduce - but said this would be for another time. Given the move to M1 pretty much doubled Adobe application performance on the Mac, I’ll be very interested to see what Adobe says about M1 Ultra in future.Īpple itself claims the processor will deliver 3.8x the CPU performance, 4.5x the GPU performance, and 3x faster machine learning in comparison to the also outstanding M1 Mac and Intel iMac systems. While that’s true, I can say that what I’ve seen of M-series chips so far strongly suggests these tests will translate into real-world application speed gains. Of course, synthetic scores don’t mean much when it comes to real-world use.
ADOBE DIMENSION M1 PRO
In contrast, the highest end Xeon W Mac Pro scores 1,152 and 19,951 in the same tests, while AMD’s heavily-touted Threadripper 3990X is only slightly faster with 25,133 multi-core and just 1,213 single-core scores. We can’t yet know what the real-world impact of this performance will be, but the first Geekbench scores show a Mac Studio running an M1 Ultra achieves a single-core score of 1,793 and a multi-core score of 24,055. That they also perform so much faster means investments in these machines becomes little more than “a rounding error” for some pro shops, as CCS analyst Ben Wood noted. When running an application, you can also address a huge 128GB of unified memory. Given pro video production studios run banks of Macs performing computationally intensive operations, this makes for significant budget savings. That’s nice for an individual user, but for companies running banks of high-end machines, reducing energy consumption has major benefits to business costs. In other words, you achieve more raw CPU performance at a fraction of the energy costs. Together, this combination of technologies means Apple has been able to build a chip that’s 1.9 times as powerful as the latest 12 th generation Intel Core i9-12900K CPU when both run at 60 watts. That the M1 Ultra also offers 64 graphics cores is remarkable. After all, the performance and power you can exploit in 3D design, video, and audio applications should also benefit gaming. Indeed, given that the M1 Pro already delivers what most Mac users need, this chip will inevitably open the door to new, highly intensive experiences.
ADOBE DIMENSION M1 CODE
What this means in practice is that applications can access twice the transistors and double the performance, efficiency, and GPU cores - without code tweaks. But Apple’s claim of achieving a superior solution will resonate.Īpple says its tech delivers 4x the bandwidth of competing interposer technologies.Īnother important element to Apple’s invention is that developers won’t need to rewrite their code to use this power UltraFusion means that, on a system level, the Mac sees the chip as a single processor, not two.
ADOBE DIMENSION M1 PC
Its approach isn’t unique AMD and others have also developed silicon interposer interconnection tech for their PC chips. (I imagine Apple may have used TSMC’s 3DFabric technology to achieve UltraFusion.)Īpple won what appears to be its first related design patent in March 2021, though work began earlier. To do so, UltraFusion uses a silicon interposer with twice the connection density “of any technology available,” said Srouji.Ī silicon interposer is basically an in-package interconnect that bridges the two dies used in M1 Ultra. That interconnect uses a proprietary packaging architecture Apple calls UltraFusion. Apple describes this as “way ahead” of the industry and claims it can shuttle data around the chip at 2.5 terabytes per second of low latency, inter-processor bandwidth, which is fast. (I seem to recall this was spotted by others at some point, but can’t find a reference.) What is UltraFusion? He pointed out a die-to-die interconnect tech that was always on the M1 Max, something Apple has not discussed before. Srouji moved on to explain how the company has managed to combine two M1 Max chips into one M1 Ultra.
He also said the M1 Ultra “completes the family” of Mac processors - at least for now.
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