M4 Ultra Reportedly Planned For Apple’s Mac Studio In The First Half Of 2025, But The Chipset Hinted Not To Be A Part Of The Upcoming Mac Pro

Apple is done announcing the M4, M4 Pro, and the M4 Max last year when it introduced a host of Macs, but its M4 Ultra was always expected to launch later for the company’s more powerful machines, the Mac Studio and the Mac Pro. Thanks to the latest update, we learn that the company’s most powerful chipset will be unveiled in the first half of this year, which only means that the launch of its workstations is imminent. However, while the report states that a Mac Studio will feature the M4 Ultra, it suggests that the Mac Pro will not be treated to the same Apple Silicon.

Updated Mac Studio will be available in the M4 Max and M4 Ultra configurations, with massive CPU and GPU core counts

We previously reported that Apple was planning a new Mac Studio and Mac Pro in 2025, but only one of them will feature the M4 Ultra. Today, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has made it pretty apparent that the more compact computer will offer customers the option to upgrade to either the M4 Max or M4 Ultra. We have already witnessed the M4 Max’s capabilities, with its top-end version with 16 cores obtaining the highest single-core results for an Apple Silicon, though its multi-core performance is less than 20 percent faster than the M4 Pro.

As for the M4 Ultra, the exact specifications are currently unknown, but it has been reported on a previous occasion that Apple’s most powerful SoC sporting 32 cores is estimated to be 50 percent faster than the M4 Max in Geekbench 6 while achieving double the score of AMD’s latest Ryzen 9 9950X. Additionally, the new silicon could be equipped with an 80-core GPU, making it quite an intimidating graphics powerhouse. We have talked about the M4 Mac mini delivering a solid framerate in older AAA games, so one can only imagine what numbers the M4 Ultra will churn out.

What is interesting is that the report mentions that the upcoming Mac Pro will not feature the M4 Ultra but another SoC, which will be discussed in depth separately. It is possible that Apple is making this decision so there is some meaningful differentiation between the two machines. After all, the M2 Ultra version of the Mac Studio could be configured with the same hardware as the Mac Pro, but it was $3,000 less expensive, making it the obvious choice for the majority of buyers.

We have yet to learn about the new chipset that Apple is supposedly developing for its powerful workstation, but we will have all the updates ready for you before the M4 Ultra’s official unveiling, so stay tuned.

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