The Max Tech Channel tears down the Mac Studio in a video, looking for the M1 Ultra.
Hard to deny, l’Apple M1 Ultra has impressive specs for an SoC: 114 billion transistors, 20 CPU cores, up to 64 GPU cores. This new Apple Silicon chip is available within the Mac Studio. The Apple brand started delivering this machine to customers last Friday. You have to pay a minimum of 4599 euros to acquire a version equipped with an M1 Ultra; and once more, the 48-core GPU model. For the best version, the one with 64 GPU cores, you have to add 1150 euros to this amount. At that price, we assume that few people will undertake to disassemble their Mac Studio to admire its innards. Fortunately for the curious that we are, the Max Tech channel performed the operation in the video below.
As you will have noticed, Apple engineers have optimized the little space present in the case to the maximum. The Mac Studio has multiple layers of circuit boards with a high density of components. Note that the case has dimensions of 19.7 x 19.7 x 9.5 cm. This corresponds to a volume of approximately 0.0036 m³, or 3.6 litres. The model equipped with an M1 Max weighs 2.7 kg while that equipped with an M1 Ultra displays almost a kilo more on the scale: 3.6 kg.
Apple obliges, this Mac Studio is clearly not designed with an upgrade in mind, but a professional should have no difficulty in repairing / changing certain parts if necessary.
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Regarding the M1 Ultra chip, it is very impressive. In the photo, visibly, it looks regarding three times larger than the Ryzen 3 3300X; the AMD processor seems in any case very small next to the Apple chip. Nothing very surprising in reality, since the M1 Ultra is a pair of M1 Max bonded using UltraFusion technology.
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Source : Max Tech via WCCFTech