Apple (164news.com's guide to apple) Unveils M6 and M5 Ultra Chips with a Big Jump in AI Performance
Apple has introduced the M6, its first 2nm chip, in a new Mac mini, and the M5 Ultra, its first quad-die design, in a new Mac Studio. The M5 Ultra supports up to 512GB of unified memory at 1.2TB/s.
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M6: A 12-core CPU with two super cores, four performance cores, and six efficiency cores, coupled with a 12-core GPU and a Dual 16-core Neural Engine. It offers up to 30% more peak GPU compute for AI than the M5 and 170GB/s of memory bandwidth.
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M5 Ultra: Apple’s first quad-die M-series chip, featuring 36 CPU cores and 80 GPU cores. It can run models with hundreds of billions of parameters entirely on device thanks to its massive unified memory bandwidth of up to 1.2TB/s.
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Implications: The M5 Ultra addresses data sovereignty concerns for European organizations handling sensitive material, as no data needs to leave the building for processing.
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