M1 chip guide: M1, M1 pro, M1 Max and M1 ultra

Apple Of M1 Chip on 2020 year 11 Month launch , Has proven to be very powerful , Although applicable only to Apple The entry level of Mac：24 Inch iMac、MacBook Air、Mac mini And two 13 Inch MacBook Pro Model .M1 Your successor is not expected M1X, It is M1 Pro and M1 Max.

And then in 2022 year 3 month ,Apple Further more , Launched M1 Ultra, It combines two M1 Max chip ,CPU、GPU And the amount of unified memory is twice as large .

The next step may be M1 A more powerful variant of —— Two M1 Ultra Can be combined in Mac Pro To create M1 Extreme！ In this paper , We will introduce in detail Apple M1 Series of chips , If you are interested, please keep watching ！PD17 virtual machine

M1 What is it? ？

M1 yes Apple by Mac The first on-chip system manufactured . It's on 2020 year 11 Month in MacBook Air、Mac mini And two 13 Inch MacBook Pro First appearance in the model , And then for 2021 , launched in 24 Inch iMac. It provides the following functions ：

• 8 nucleus CPU（4 Personality can be the core and 4 An efficiency core ）
• 7 Nuclear or 8 Core graphics processor (GPU)
• 16 Nuclear nerve engine
• 8GB or 16GB Memory
• 68.25GBps Memory bandwidth

What is? M1 Pro？

M1 Pro On 2021 year 10 Month in 14 Inch MacBook Pro and 16 Inch MacBook Pro First appearance in the model . It includes the following ：

• 8 Nuclear or 10 nucleus CPU（6 or 8 Personality can be core and 2 Efficiency kernel ）
• 14 or 16 nucleus GPU
• 16 Nuclear nerve engine
• 16GB or 32GB Memory
• 200GBps Memory bandwidth

What is? M1 Max？

M1 Max Still in 2021 year 10 Month in 14 Inches and 16 Inch MacBook Pro First appearance in the model .Max still 2022 year 3 Month listed Mac Studio Available as an option in . It includes the following ：

• 10 nucleus CPU（8 Personality can be the core and 2 An efficiency core ）
• 24 or 32 nucleus GPU
• 16 Nuclear nerve engine
• 32GB or 64GB Memory
• 400GBps Memory bandwidth

What is? M1 Ultra？

M1 Ultra It's essentially two M1 Max On the same chip , It includes ：

• 20 nucleus CPU（16 Personality can be the core and 4 An efficiency core ）
• 48 or 64 nucleus GPU
• 32 Nuclear nerve engine
• 64GB or 128GB Memory
• 800GBps Memory bandwidth

There will be M1 Extreme Do you ？

There are rumors that , Apple M1 Our next step is to M1 Ultra Double , make M1 Extreme. If it is true , We can do it in 2022 Mac Pro See the following in ：

• 40 nucleus CPU（32 Personality can be the core and 8 An efficiency core ）
• the height is 128 nucleus GPU
• the height is 64 The neural engine of the nucleus
• the height is 256GB Of memory
• 1,6000GBps Memory bandwidth

M1 And M1 Pro What's the difference? ？

M1 Very powerful , But there are also some disadvantages . One side , It can only support 16GB Unified memory , This is not enough for some users . If you need a more powerful machine , Well, then M1 Pro Of Mac It's your best choice . however , For ordinary Mac Users ,M1 Mac That's enough .

M1 Pro And M1 Max What's the difference? ？

As can be seen from the above specifications ,M1 Pro and M1 Max The most obvious difference is the number of graphic cores （CPU There is no difference in the core aspects ）.Max It can also support double Pro Of memory – 64GB RAM And 32GB comparison . But there are more differences , These differences add up to some very large performance gains .

And M1 equally ,Apple by M1 Of Pro and Max The version uses 5 Nanotechnology , But this time it contains more transistors .M1 Pro There are 337 100 million transistors （ yes M1 More than twice that ）,M1 Max There are 570 100 million transistors （ Than M1 Pro many 70%, Than M1 many 3.5 times ）.

M1 Pro And M1 Max

From this comparison M1 Pro and M1 Max Of Geekbench As can be seen from the graph of the results ,CPU There is little difference between kernels ：

In the test , We see M1 Max 16 Inch MacBook Pro The score of multi-core is 12,733, Almost 2019 paragraph MacBook Pro Of 6,663 Twice as many .

As for graphic benchmarks ：

M1 Max And M1 Ultra What's the difference? ？

M1 Ultra It's essentially two M1 Max The chips are fused together .M1 Ultra Have 20 nucleus CPU、64 nucleus GPU、32 Nuclear nerve engine 、 Four video coding engines 、 four ProRes Codec engine , And up to 128GB Of LPDDR5 Unified memory , The bandwidth is 800GB/s. It's a powerful combination .

For those considering buying Mac Studio For people who ,M1 Ultra And M1 Max The comparison of will be an important issue .

Here are CPU Test results , In terms of multi-core scores ,M1 Ultra It's about Max Twice as many .

 

Thanks to the ProRes Hardware acceleration and extra GPU kernel , Graphic tests are also impressive . Here are the results of the graphic test ：