Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute

Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute Apple today debuted M6 in the new Mac mini and M5 Ultra in the new Mac Studio, providing an extraordinary leap in performance and AI capabilities, with M6 being Apple's first state-of-the-art 2-nanometer chip. Specifications M6 features a larger 12-core CPU complex with the world's fastest CPU core, a larger 12-core GPU with Neural Accelerators, a Dual 16-core Neural Engine, and up to 170GB/s of unified memory bandwidth. M5 Ultra uses next-generation UltraFusion technology to form a quad-die architecture for the first time in an M-series SoC, featuring an up-to-36-core CPU and up-to-80-core GPU with a massive 1.2TB/s of unified memory bandwidth, 50 percent more than M3 Ultra. Features M6 delivers up to 1.2x faster multithreaded performance compared to M5 and up to 2.4x faster than M1, with a Dual 16-core Neural Engine providing up to 2x the peak compute over previous generations. M5 Ultra delivers up to 1.25x higher single-threaded performance and up to 1.3x higher multithreaded performance than M3 Ultra, with up to 4.5x the peak GPU compute for AI compared to M3 Ultra and over 6x more than M1 Ultra, plus up to 512GB of unified memory for running huge LLMs with hundreds of billions of parameters entirely on device. Price and Availability Apple did not disclose pricing or specific availability dates in this press release. The M6 debuts in the new Mac mini and M5 Ultra in the new Mac Studio. For more information, see apple.com/mac-mini and apple.com/mac-studio. Verdict M6 is designed for everyday users, students, developers, AI hobbyists, and enterprises who need an ideal balance of performance, power efficiency, and on-device AI. M5 Ultra is built for pros who need maximum CPU and GPU performance and unified memory bandwidth for complex 3D rendering, visual effects, scientific analysis, and running compute-intensive frontier AI models on device.