Comment by GeekyBear
20 hours ago
The Ultra variants of the M series chips had previously consisted of two of the Max chips bonded together.
The M5 generation Pro and Max chips have moved to a chiplet based architecture, with all the CPU cores on one chiplet, and all the GPU cores on another.
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M5
So what will the M5 Ultra look like?
If you integrate two CPU chiplets and two GPU chiplets, you're looking at 36 CPU cores, 80 GPU cores, and 1228 GB/s of memory bandwidth.
Or it could be the same CPU as in pro/max with more GPU chiplets.
Sure.
AI workloads would really benefit from having more RAM, GPU cores, and memory channels.
Something tells me this mentality is how Apple ended up with thousands of idling Private Cloud Compute servers.
But sure, more GPU cores will definitely fix it this time.