Apple has launched the M3 Ultra processor.The M3 Ultra is the highest-performance chip the company has ever developed, with the most powerful CPU and GPU ever used in a Mac.
With a 32-core CPU, 80-core GPU and twice as many Neural Engine cores, it’s optimized for AI-powered workflows.

What does Apple M3 Ultra offer?

It also supports the highest unified memory capacity ever offered in personal computers. Thunderbolt 5 technology delivers more than 2x the bandwidth per port for faster connectivity and enhanced expansion options.

M3 Ultra is built on Apple’s UltraFusion architecture. It combines two M3 Max chips to deliver low latency and high bandwidth with 10,000 high-speed connections. This technology makes it possible to use the two chips as one unified chip.

The M3 Ultra has a total of 184 billion transistors and maximizes the performance of the new Mac Studio. According to Apple, this chip offers up to 2.6 times more performance than the M1 Ultra.

M3 Ultra delivers the highest performance of any Mac chip and is also the most energy efficient. With 24 performance cores and 8 efficiency cores, the CPU runs 1.5 times faster than the M2 Ultra and 1.8 times faster than the M1 Ultra.

The 80-core GPU boosts graphics performance with dynamic memory allocation, hardware-accelerated mesh shading and ray tracing technologies. M3 Ultra’s 32-core Neural Engine is optimized for AI operations such as large language models (LLMs), allowing models with more than 600 billion parameters to be run directly in Mac Studio.

Apple has also significantly improved the unified memory architecture of M3 Ultra. Starting with 96 GB of memory as standard, the configuration can be upgraded up to 512 GB. This removes the limitations of professional workflows that require high memory, such as 3D modeling, visual effects and artificial intelligence. Memory bandwidth is increased to over 800 GBps, providing higher speed and lower latency.