Apple M1 Ultra is still far from rivaling an RTX 3090

On the occasion of the "Peek Performance" event held on March 8, Apple presented its new desktop designed for professionals, Mac Studio, which is the first device that can be equipped with the M1 Ultra SoC, which, consisting of 20 CPU cores, 48 ​​GPU cores and 32 Neural Engine cores, is basically formed by two M1 Max connected together by a customized packaging architecture called Ultrafusion, of which you will find further details in our previous article.



Photo Credit: Apple In the course of its presentation, the Cupertino-based company had stated that the GPU component would be able to provide similar performance to the high-end dedicated video cards on the market and, being careful to the captions in the graphs shown, you could even read the name of the GeForce RTX 3090. Undoubtedly, the possibility of having performances comparable to the very powerful RTX 3090 while consuming 200W less is certainly tempting and should highlight the extraordinary efficiency of the Apple chip.




Photo Credit: Apple Apple is doing a great job with its SoCs and we are quite curious to see what it will pull out of the hat for the second generation (M2). A couple of days ago we also talked to you about the reason that led the Mac Studio model with M1 Ultra to be considerably heavier than the variant with M1 Max. For further details on this, we recommend you read our dedicated news.