Hardware Breakdown Presents: Apple's M2 Ultra processor
Apple held its annual WWDC, revealing many new gadgets and software. The event star was Apple's first and new Vision Pro headsets. The other main attraction at the event was Apple's new Mac Pro and the Mac Studio. What's got everyone stoked and intrigued about these two machines is what's inside. They both feature the M2 Ultra chip, which is a massive system on a chip.
The interconnected components make it the most potent piece of hardware Apple has ever created. In this newly written episode of Hardware Breakdown, we go inside this massive chip and examine the core components that give this hardware its raw power.
Ladies and Gentleman the M2 Ultra
The powerful CPU and GPU are structured around high bandwidth unified memory and a Media Engine capable of handling multiple 8K ProRes video, In addition to having a 32-core Neural Engine.
This is a massive chip (SoC)
To the naked eye, this is a single massive chip. But these are two M2 Ultra dies attached using a custom packaging architecture. According to Apple, this chip does not radiate significant heat. It can provide up to2.5TB/s of low-latency inter-processor bandwidth between the dies that do not use much power.
The Core
What makes the M2 Ultra so powerful is has 24 operating cores in total, leveraging 16 high-performance cores and eight high-efficiency cores, with an industry-leading performance per watt. The GPU is equally impressive, having 76 cores capable of delivering 27.2 teraflops of graphics performance while having up to 192GB of graphics memory. In addition, a 32-core Neural Engine can execute 31.6 trillion operations per second for accelerated machine learning functions.
