Apple has introduced the M6 in a new Mac mini and the M5 Ultra in a new Mac Studio, its first 2nm chip and its first quad-die M-series design respectively. The M5 Ultra supports up to 512GB of unified memory at 1.2TB/s.
The Mac mini question is settled. TNW reported this morning that it was unclear whether the machine would get an M5 or an M6, and Apple has answered with the M6, its first 2-nanometre chip.
The specification is a step up. A 12-core CPU built from two super cores, four performance cores and six efficiency cores, alongside a 12-core GPU and what Apple calls a Dual 16-core Neural Engine.
The claims are Apple’s own and they are large. It says the M6 has the world’s fastest single-threaded performance, roughly 30% more peak GPU compute for AI than the M5, and up to 170GB/s of memory bandwidth.
The shape of the launch was reported here in June. TNW wrote that Apple would ship a base M6 with no Pro or Max versions, using an M5 Ultra as a stopgap in a new Mac Studio, which is exactly what happened.
