What can we expect from the M4 Ultra chip, will we have new Mac Pro and Mac Studio in 2025?

This 2025 will be key to see the update of what would be the best chip for Mac in its history, the M4 Ultra chip which could arrive at WWDC 2025

He year 2025 it will undoubtedly be relevant for high-end and entry-level Macs. Of course, we are referring to the most powerful Macs and the MacBook Air which have yet to be updated with M4 chips. If we mainly talk about Mac Pro and Mac Studiothese teams stayed with the M2 Ultra chip. Given the progress Apple has made with its chip products, We have no doubt that this is the year to update the best Apple computers with the M4 Ultra chip. How close are we to its launch?

The power of the M4 Ultra has an existing clue, the M4 Max chip

Beyond equipment design changes or any other important specifications, The most relevant thing about the Mac Pro and Mac Studio will be the M4 Ultra chip. The path could already be traced if we carry out the latest benchmark: the M4 Max and M4 Ultra chips for the Mac Studio and the M4 Ultra chip for the Mac Pro.

For example, the M4 Max chip has already provided proof of what it means in the MacBook Pro. Its performance is much superior to the M2 Ultra in single-core and multi-core character. Apple could follow the path used previously, joining two Max chips to create the Ultra. Instead of having 16 cores, they would increase to 32. RAM memory reaches up to 192 GB but Apple could surprise us with up to 256 GBa terrible amount.

So why was there no M3 Ultra chip? Some rumors at the time indicated that Apple had failed which was evident in past generations. The UltraFusion connection failed to materialize because the M3 Ultra could perhaps have been a single chip and not the connection of two. Apple did not want to take too many risks by launching a “common chip”. Another possible answer is that maybe there wouldn't be much difference as it was back then between the M1 and M2 Ultra chips. It is better to wait to have a correct assessment and to be able to compare performances with a margin of difference. Mark Gurman pointed out in November 2024 that we could see a CPU with up to 32 cores and a GPU with up to 80 cores.

When will the remaining Macs be released?

There's no better setting than doing it at WWDC 2025a time when Apple has already shown progress with Apple Silicon chips. Now we do not expect a surprise launch like that represented by the iPad Pro with M4 in anticipation of Macs, but a cycle of launches that had not happened in years could be completed, all Macs updated with a single generation of chips.

Is a product redesign expected? There are no rumors that confirm this, the only rumor about a redesign was for the Mac mini and this is the radical change that Mark Gurman has been talking about for months. It'll only be a matter of time before Gurman himself can offer us a deeper look at the most powerful Macs. About the MacBook Air, we can't expect more than we already knowa Mac updated to the M4 chip with the same design as its predecessors.

However, There is reason to expect an overhaul of at least Mac Studio. If we look at it this way, We have two generations that have not yet undergone design changes. The Mac Studio in a smaller size like the Mac mini? This would be a possibility although it would not correspond to a high-end Mac with the best performance. It's best not to get excited until you hear more rumors or reports about it.

While The Mac Pro, in its past with Intel, did not have the expected design change. They went with the classic “trash can” design and that’s it. With Apple Silicon one would expect that there could be different changes although it is also positioned in a second generation like its little brother in size.

The unknowns that remain to be resolved, in addition to the design problem, concern the M4 Ultra chip and the connection between the Max chips. Has Apple found a way to unify all this power into a single chip? If those from Cupertino have already achieved this final form, we can get excited about a great future in Mac performancesomething we could never see with a Mac made under Intel architecture.

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