Memory and graphics performance handled by the main SoC with expandability provided using the PCI Express slots. Given the current strategy, the next Mac Pro could use a hybrid of both. Up until now, these have been the conventional building blocks of making powerful computers… Apple changed all of that when they embraced the System on a chip design concept. The current Mac Pro has a scalable architecture, meaning all parts of the system such as memory and graphics are scaleable using separate components and cards. Apple’s new chips are based on SoC (System on Chip) meaning things like memory and graphics are now part of the main chip. Now here’s the complicated part of the Apple Silicon Mac Pro equation. It wouldn’t be a great marketing exercise for the M1-based Mac Pro to drop after M2 machines, but stranger things have happened.” That’s because low-power M2 Macs are likely to hit before the first Mac Pro. Holding off on launching a new Mac Pro until the M2 line is ready would make sense. M2 Extreme: 48 CPU cores and 96 or 128 graphics cores M2 Ultra: 24 CPU cores and 48 or 64 graphics cores M2 Max: 12 CPU cores and 32 graphics cores M2 Pro: 12 CPU cores and 16 graphics cores M2: eight CPU cores and nine or 10 graphics cores The other possibility is that Apple is holding off on the new Mac Pro until the M2 Ultra and a dual M2 Ultra are ready. Let’s call that double M2 Ultra “the M2 Extreme.” With that in mind, here are my expectations for Apple’s next slate of chips: Apple had been working on a new Mac Pro that features double the performance of the M1 Ultra, leading to 40 CPU cores and 128 graphics cores. “The simplest explanation is that Apple could roll out a Mac Pro with an M1 Ultra as well as a dual M1 Ultra without giving that higher-power chip a new name. Starting with the MacBook Air running on the next generation M2 chip, then move onto similar scaling on the M2 chips, possibly the M2 Pro, M2 Max, and M2 Ultra, powering the next generation of Macs. It appears that Apple will make the next Silicon transition M2 based.
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How can Apple update something that isn’t available? The Intel 27-inch iMac was just discontinued, and the previous iMac Pro was killed off a year ago.” That’s because the iMac Pro doesn’t actually exist as a product. The company’s statement is still technically true: The Mac Pro will be the last new Mac to get Apple Silicon. I still strongly believe a larger iMac with Apple’s pro chips is in development-but I don’t think it, nor the next Mac Pro, are coming anytime soon. “Some viewers took this to mean there would be no new iMac Pro with chips on par with the MacBook Pro or Mac Studio. A fresh Mac Pro, the last Mac to transition to Apple Silicon, is coming later (they had to say this to avoid people believing the Mac Studio was its new high-end machine).” The 27-inch iMac is being discontinued.ģ.
“During and after the keynote, the company dropped a couple of pieces information regarding the rest of its Apple Silicon lineup:ġ.
Writing in his Power On email Mark Gurman from Bloomberg writes
It’s possible the new Mac Pro could feature a chip that is two Ultra chips combined, in effect four M1 Max chips as one mega chip. However, the concept of joining two chips together was just the start, as the same predictions also talked about the possibility to join more than two chips together. It turned out the rumours were correct and Apple did indeed join two M1 Max chips together to create what they now call the M1 Ultra. Over the last year, there have been several predictions about how Apple will upscale the Silicon architecture for the mighty Mac Pro.īack in November 2021, we reported on how Apple could join their chips together to create what we called at that time an M1 Max Duo chip. So what can we expect in the new Silicon powered Mac Pro? Will Apple Use The M1 Chips? At the end of the Mac Studio presentation from Apple, they gave a cheeky hint that the Mac Pro was next on their list to get the Apple Silicon love.
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