Starting to emerge in real-world testing of Apple’s new Mac Studio is Apple’s new M1 Ultra silicon.
During Apple’s Peek Performance event earlier this week, the company unveiled the all-new Mac Studio. Despite the fact that it has some recognisable features, Apple’s newest desktop computer is a distinct addition to the Mac range. A new M1 Ultra processor powers the device that has the appearance of two stacked Mac Minis. There is an M1 Max variant of this processor if you require more power. In spite of their similar appearance, the M1 Ultra and the M1 Max are two pounds heavier than the Mac Studio.
iJustine has unboxed and tested out the new Mac Studio M1 Ultra, and it shows that the M1 Ultra performs as predicted above Apple’s M1 Max, indicating that the new gadget is much more powerful than the MacBook Pro (2021) and far faster than a $20,000 version of the previous Intel Mac Pro of 2019.
Armando Ferreira (Mondobytes) helped the two produce a 4K ProRes project in Adobe Premiere Pro. A short clip that lasts 11 minutes and 39 seconds renders in 6 minutes and 39 seconds on the M1 Max MacBook Pro and 24 minutes and 21 seconds on the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M1. However, even with an older version of FCP X running in the background along with Photoshop and a few other programmes, the new Mac Studio managed to render the project in an astonishing 3 minutes and 31 seconds.
Even though the 2019 Mac Pro costs five times as much as the Mac Studio, its render time was still over ten minutes.
While the M1 Ultra chip’s increased processing capacity (depending on which version of the M1 Max was used in Ferreira’s previous test) and benchmarks prove that this is the most powerful Mac ever produced, the real-world results aren’t quite there.