Apple would equip its next Mac Pro with two powerful M1 Ultra chips

Apple already designs the most powerful consumer processors on the market, but the Californian giant does not intend to stop there. His next Mac Pro should be a real powerhouse.

Apple took advantage of its spring 2022 conference to introduce a new super-powerful M1 Ultra chip. It is actually two M1 Max chips connected together with a bridge offering a dizzying bandwidth of 2.5 TB per second. The American giant calls this processor “UltraFusion”.

According to Apple, the M1 Ultra chip is 8 times more powerful than the classic M1 chip, and is much more energy efficient than a CPU with the same number of cores. We had also been able to see that the M1 Ultra chip and its 20 cores do not have to be ashamed of the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X with 64 cores, according to the first results on the Geekbench benchmark. Apple should not stop in such a good way, since the processor of the next Mac Pro is already talking about him.

Apple’s Mac Pro will be the most powerful computer on the market

According to information from Internet user Majin Bu on TwitterApple’s next Mac Pro is expected to use a new SoC consisting of two to four M1 Ultra chips. This therefore confirms information from Mark Gurman, who also expected Apple to present a Mac Pro equipped with several M1 Max chips by the end of the year.

This processor would be codenamed “Redfern”, and the bridge would be called “DAISYXL”, composed of DAISY1 and DAISY2 found in the UltraFusion architecture of the M1 Max chip. This new Mac Pro should therefore be two to four times more powerful than Apple’s new Mac Studio, which is already one of the most powerful machines on the market. As a reminder, the Mac Studio is marketed from 4599 euros with an M1 Max chip.

If the next Mac Pro were to use several of these chips, we can imagine that its price could cross the 10,000 euro mark. As its name suggests, the device is primarily intended for professionals. For the moment, it is not known how Apple could name this new chip, but Mark Gurman thinks the company could opt for the “M1 Extreme” name.