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Apple’s M2 Mac Pro reported to feature 24 and 48 CPU core options

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has come out with heavy-hitting news today.

According to Gurman, Apple is testing out the first in-house chip for the Mac Pro, the company’s only mac that still hasn’t transitioned to Apple silicon.

The new Mac Pro, which is reportedly expected to arrive sometime in early 2023, will “include chip options that are at least twice or four times as powerful as the M2 Max.” M2 Max is Apple’s 12-core CPU that is expected to power Apple’s upcoming 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro.

Gurman is calling the chips on the Mac Pro M2 Ultra and M2 Extreme, though these won’t be the actual names of the chips upon release. “My belief is that the Mac Pro will be offered with options for 24 and 48 CPU cores and 76 and 152 graphics cores — along with up to 256 gigabytes of memory,” wrote Gurman.

Gurman also said that the chip with 24 CPU cores (16 performance and 8 efficiency cores), 76 graphics cores and 192 gigabytes of memory is already in testing at Apple. The machine with the chip is reported to be running macOS Ventura 13.3, the first version of which, macOS Ventura 13, officially released earlier today. 

Apple’s 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pro, with the M2 Max chipset, are expected to be released sometime in the coming months, while the Mac Pro with the ‘M2 Ultra and M2 Extreme’ is expected to come out sometime in 2023.

Source: Bloomberg

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Apple confirms its virtual WWDC keynote is set for June 6 at 1pm ET

Though Apple already confirmed a few weeks ago that WWDC 2022 will run from June 6th to the 10th, the tech giant has revealed the timing for the annual event’s keynote — 1pm ET/10am PT.

Similar to years past, Apple will hold this year’s event remotely, though it will offer an in-person watch party for a small group of developers.

WWDC is typically software-focused and focused on the tech giant showing off updates to iOS, iPadOS, MacOS and more, but rumours point to the tech giant possibly finally revealing its often-reported virtual reality headset.

Along with the new headset, there’s a possibility the tech giant could reveal a new iMac, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and even an M1-powered Mac Pro.

MobileSyrup will have more on WWDC in the coming weeks.

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Leaked M1 Ultra benchmark shows it outperforming Intel Mac Pro’s 28-core CPU

Apple unveiled a ton of products at its ‘Peek Performance’ event this week, but the star was easily the new Mac Studio and M1 Ultra chip. But, questions remain about how well the Mac Studio and M1 Ultra actually perform — Apple made some lofty claims on stage.

Well, according to a leaked Geekbench score for the M1 Ultra chip, performance looks pretty good.

Now, before I get too deep into this, it’s important to note that benchmarks are not always the best way to judge a computer. Benchmarks can be useful for comparing performance between devices through a consistent test, but they may not always be indicative of real-world performance. Moreover, it can sometimes be hard to note the impact of significant hardware differences — for example, the amount of RAM in a device — in a benchmark.

With that out of the way, this GeekBench 5 result for the M1 Ultra shows the chip hit a single-core score of 1,793. As 9to5Mac points out, that puts it in line with all of Apple’s M1 chips, which makes sense given one of the biggest differences between them is the number of cores.

Things are more interesting with the M1 Ultra’s multi-core result: 24,055.

That’s a pretty impressive score, especially when you take it in context. For example, our test of the MacBook Pro with the new M1 Pro chip scored 9,318 in GeekBench’s multi-core test. My Windows desktop with a 10th Gen Intel Core 19-10900K scored 10,192 in multi-core, and Intel’s new 12th Gen Core i9-12900HK laptop chip scored 13,523. 9to5 also pointed out that Intel’s 28-core Xeon W-3275M processor, which is currently the best CPU you can get in Apple’s Mac Pro machine, scored 19,951 in GeekBench’s multi-core test. That suggests the M1 Ultra performs about 20 percent better than the Intel Xeon W-3275M.

Perhaps the more impressive part of this is the M1 Ultra chip almost certainly hits that high performance while using a fraction of the power that the Intel chips use.

As impressive as the M1 Ultra is, it’s worth keeping in mind that the Mac Pro offers a high level of customizability, allowing people to equip it with multiple AMD Radeon Pro GPUs and up to 1.5TB of RAM. Those could be difference-makers in some highly intensive workloads that need a lot of memory — the M1 Ultra maxes out at 128GB (which is way more than most people need, but for those intense workloads, may come up laughably short).

All that said, Apple did tease plans to introduce a new Mac Pro with Apple Silicon in the future. Although unlikely, part of me hopes whatever chip Apple introduces for the new Mac Pro offers the same level of flexibility as the current Mac Pro in terms of memory expansion.

Source: GeekBench Via: 9to5Mac