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Apple Introduces M6 and M5 Ultra Chips, in New Mac Mini and Mac Studio

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. M6, Apple's first state-of-the-art 2-nanometer chip, advances every compute block, delivering gains across every dimension of performance.

Apple Introduces M6 and M5 Ultra Chips, in New Mac Mini and Mac Studio
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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.

M6, Apple's first state-of-the-art 2-nanometer chip, advances every compute block, delivering gains across every dimension of performance.

The chip 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.

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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. M6, Apple's first state-of-the-art 2-nanometer chip, advances every compute block, delivering gains across every dimension of performance. The chip 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.

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  • M5 Ultra, the ultimate powerhouse for pro and AI workloads, uses next-generation UltraFusion technology to form a quad-die architecture for the first time in an M-series system on a chip (SoC).
  • The chip includes 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.
  • The new Mac Mini (M6 and M5 Pro) and Mac Studio (M5 Max and M5 Ultra) are available for preorder today, but none of them ship until September 22.

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All are slated to ship with MacOS 27 Golden Gate.

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