Apple’s new M6 chip gets more cores and more AI compute

Apple has announced a caller M6 spot for Macs, on pinch an M5 Ultra that it says is its “most powerful spot ever,” designed for tasks for illustration 3D rendering and moving frontier AI models. The M6 is Apple’s first 2nm chip, which Apple says will bring improvements successful capacity and powerfulness efficiency, and it besides has a Dual 16-core Neural Engine for on-device AI workloads.

The M6 has a 12-core CPU, up from 10 successful the M5, and it includes 2 ace cores, 4 capacity cores, and six ratio cores. (Apple’s “super” halfway terminology utilized to mention to capacity cores, but it introduced a caller type of capacity halfway starting pinch the M5 Pro and M5 Max.) The institution says the CPU offers “the world’s fastest single-threaded performance” and up to 1.2x faster multithreaded capacity successful comparison to the M5. The spot besides has a 12-core GPU, up from 10 cores successful the M5, and includes a Neural Accelerator pinch each core, Apple says. It supports arsenic overmuch arsenic 32GB of unified memory.

Apple says that the M5 Ultra uses the company’s UltraFusion interconnect exertion to link 2 dual-die M5 Max chips together arsenic 1 quad-die architecture. The M5 Ultra has an up to 36-core CPU pinch 12 ace cores and 24 capacity cores, an up to 80-core GPU, and a 32-core Neural Engine. It supports up to 512GB of “high-bandwidth” unified memory, which arsenic accustomed pinch the M bid isn’t upgradeable aft purchase.

The M6 spot will beryllium disposable successful a caller Mac Mini, while the M5 Ultra will motorboat successful a caller Mac Studio. Both computers will beryllium disposable for preorder opening Tuesday up of a merchandise connected September 22nd.