That Intel is ahead of Apple and AMD right now is evident from multiple data points. In terms of performance and efficiency, however, they are a bit behind, although very close. This is something Apple does not want to allow and following new rumors they have a SoC ready that cannibalizes all Intel and AMD desktop products including the Threadripper 3000. Is this possible? It would be the M1 Ultratrue, false or an ES?
We’re in the realm of pure speculation, mostly because these are results based on predictions of Apple scaling into the same Cortex architecture of its P-Cores. What is established by Maximum technology indicates something quite curious and of which we do not even know if it is possible given Apple’s limits in terms of efficiency: a 12-core SoC where all the cores are efficient.
Apple M1 Ultra, intended for the iMac Pro 2022?
If the M1 Max put half the industry in check with the good performance of the Apple chip, what they could have up their sleeve is of such caliber that it is even speculated that it would not be possible. , but it is not excluded Either. With this scenario in mind and in this fine thread that presupposes final reality speculation, we are going to get fully into the performance predictions of the M1 Ultra, where we will see that what Apple has done is a real bombshell in the semis. drivers.
With an average of 12,500 to 12,700 stitches and with a single operating system, the current M1 Max would reach these values ​​in Geekbench 5, as we saw last week. But what if there was no throttling in Apple equipment due to temperature? Well, those in Cupertino could go on the attack by launching a SoC with high performance cores, especially up to 12 cores, which would literally crush Intel and AMD in all its desktop aspects.
Estimates are possible as long as Apple manages to control the temperature and consumption, but the margin is very important and this gives rise to this speculation. With 250 watts of consumption in its state of maximum performance and with average temperatures of 75 degrees an M1 Ultra SoC with this configuration is technically feasible.
The chip that would destroy records
If produced and brought to the 2022 iMac Pro, performance and upgradability predictions point to a slightly higher score of 24,000 points, or close to 25,000. To place ourselves comparatively, a Ryzen Threadripper 3990X achieved 25,000points on average and a 3970X goes to 22,500 points about. What does the i9-12900K achieve as a mainstream desktop benchmark? Its 16 cores and 24 threads reach just over 17,000points.
Are the forecasts very optimistic? It could be, but those would also be frequency dependent and there we don’t know what a SoC with only P-Cores could achieve. Others talk about 15,000 and 18,000 pointsan optimistic figure no doubt and perhaps more realistic if possible.
In any case, the M1 Max is not expected as such in the iMac Pro 2022 and so so much cabal and calculation with what Apple could or could not do in a bigger realm thanks to the 5nm from TSMC. We’ll see what they have with the bitten apple hidden under lock and key shortly.
