Apple M3 Ultra CPU might blow away M3 Max but we wont find out for a long time yet

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Tue, 07 Nov 2023 10:46:19 +0000

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Keen to see how fast the M3 Ultra will be? Youll need to be very patient sadly

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Apples M3 Ultra chip could be quite some way off even though the company launched a clutch of fresh silicon right out of the gate this time around.

This is according to Mark Gurman, who drops some info on the future Apple SoC in his newsletter for Bloomberg (as noticed by 9to5Mac ).

As you likely saw, Apple launched the vanilla M3 alongside M3 Pro and M3 Max processors, with the latter two being a surprise (normally thered be a gap between the release of the basic model and these turbocharged spins on the SoC).

Gurman notes the reason for this triple launch was that Apple needed to have the Pro and Max variants for use in the high-end MacBook Pros that the
company unleashed at its recent Scary Fast event .

The well-known leaker further explains that theres only a certain amount of 3nm silicon available for Apple to use, most of which goes towards the high-demand iPhone, so the company needed lower volume products for the new
M3 chips pricey MacBooks, in other words .

Gurman then notes that the Mac Studio and Mac Pro are even slower selling products, but they would need a successor to the M2 Ultra and this hasnt yet gone into broad testing were told. Analysis: An ultra-long wait, then?

In other words, Apple is still a long way off releasing an M3 Ultra, and even though we got the M3 Pro and Max immediately, its likely going to be a long wait before we see an Ultra spin on the new silicon.

When the M3 Ultra arrives, if Apple sticks to its current way of doing
things, the chip is likely to be very impressive, as itll presumably be a
pair of M3 Max SoCs bolted together (as is the case with the M2 Ultra). And that current top-end offering, the M3 Max , is nicely peppy already, whereas the M3 Pro is not that much of an improvement over the M2 Pro, so Apple is favoring making the gap wider between its middling and high-end silicon, it seems.

A new Mac Studio is underway at Apple, Gurman tells us, but the next M3 products arriving in 2024 should be MacBook Air models (13-inch, 15-inch) and a revamped Mac mini. Notably, the leaker doesnt say that a Mac Pro is in the works, even, so that could be even further out than any Mac Studio. You might also like The 3 big ways the Apple M3 chips will change Mac gaming forever M3 MacBook Pro rushed out as Apples solution to flagging sales? Apple Silicon is now more important than Apple design



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