Apple announced its newest and most powerful chip yet at the WWDC 2023, its event aimed at developers. Dubbed the M2 Ultra, the company called it a "monster of a chip" and the most powerful chip ever created for a personal computer.
The chip promises a 20 percent jump in CPU performance and a 30 percent jump in GPU performance. The chip also has up to 192 GB in unified memory.
Credit: Apple"M2 Ultra delivers astonishing performance and capabilities for our pro users' most demanding workflows, while maintaining Apple silicon’s industry-leading power efficiency," said Johny Srouji, Apple’s senior vice president of Hardware Technologies, in a statement. "With huge performance gains in the CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine, combined with massive memory bandwidth in a single SoC, M2 Ultra is the world’s most powerful chip ever created for a personal computer."
The M2 Ultra will power the new Mac Studio and Mac Pro that starts at nearly $7,000.
